24 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Phalacrocorax pelagicus pelagicus Pallas. Pelagic Cormorant. [123.] 



Phalacrocorax pelagicus Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiatica, II, 1811, 303. 



(maris Camtschatici orientalis et Americanarum insularum incola = 



Aleutian Islands.) ^ 



Range. — Breeds locally on coasts and islands of Bering Sea and the northern 



Pacific Ocean from Norton Sound and St. Lawrence Island to Forrester Island, 



southeastern Alaska; on the Aleutian and Commander islands to East 



Cape, Siberia, and on the Arctic coast; also from Koliutschin Island, Siberia, 



south through the Kurile Islands to Yezo, Japan. Winters from the Aleutian, 



Pribilof, and Commander islands to Puget Sound and China. Casual at 



Point Barrow, Alaska. 



Phalacrocorax pelagicus resplendens Audubon. Baird's Cormorant. [1236.] 



Phalacrocorax resplendens Audubon, Birds Amer. (folio), IV, pi. 412, fig. 

 1, 1838 (Orn. Biog., V, 1839, 148). (Cape Disappointment near 

 entrance of Columbia River [Washington].) 



Range. — Breeds along the Pacific coast from near Victoria, British Colum- 

 bia, to Los Coronados Islands, Lower California. Winters over nearly the 

 same area, e.xtending to Natividad Island and Mazatlan, Mexico. 



Phalacrocorax urile (Gmelin). Red-faced Cormorant. [124.] 



Pelecanus Urile Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 575. Based mainly on 

 the Urile Steller, Beschr. von dem Lande Kamtschatka, 1774, 157. 

 (in Camtschatcae rupestribus maritimis = Kamchatka.) 



Range. — -Breeds in the Bering Sea region, on the Pribilof and Commander 

 islands, and to North Cape, Siberia. Winters from the vicinity of the Pribilof, 

 Aleutian, Commander, and northern Kurile islands to Japan and Formosa. 

 Casual at St. Michael, Alaska, and the Diomede Islands. 



Family ANHINGIDAE. Darters. 



Genus ANHINGA Brisson. 



Anhinga Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 60; VI, 476. Type, by monotypy, 

 Anhinga Brisson = Plotus anhinga Linnaeus. 



Anhinga anhinga (Linnaeus). Water-Turkey. [118.] 



Plotus Anhinga Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 1766, 218. Based mainly 

 on the Tumpinambus Brasiliensis Marcgrave, Hist. Nat. Brazil, 218. 

 (in America australi = Brazil.) 



Range. — Breeds through tropical America north to Bexar County, Texas; 

 Helena, Arkansas; Cairo and Mt. Carmel, Illinois (formerly); and Wihning- 



1 P. pelagicus robustus Ridgway is regarded as indistinguishable from P. 

 pelagicus pelagicus. 



