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Phalacrocorax auritus cincinatus (Brandt). White-crested Cormorant. 



[1206.] 



Carbo ciyicinaius Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Ill, 

 No. 4, Nov. 16, 1837, col. 55. (insula Kadiak [Alaska] = Kodiak 

 Island.) 



Range. — Northwest coast of North America, breeding on Kodiak Island 

 and along the coast of British Columbia to the Olympiades, Washington. 

 Accidental in Colorado. 



Phalacrocorax auritus albocihatus Ridgway. Farallon Cormorant. [120c.] 



Phalacrocorax dilophus alhocillatus Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 II, 94, April 10, 1884. (Farallone Islands to Cape St. Lucas and 

 Revillegigedo [sic] Islands, Western Mexico = Farallon Islands, Cali- 

 fornia.) 



Range. — Pacific coast and coastal islands from northern Oregon to south- 

 ern Lower California and the Revillagigedo Islands; also on the lower Colo- 

 rado River and on inland lakes of California, Oregon, Utah, Arizona, and 

 western Nevada. 



Phalacrocorax olivSceus mexicanus (Brandt). Mexican Cormorant. [121.] 



Carho mexicanus Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Ill, No. 

 4, Nov. 16, 1837, col. 56. (Mexico.) 



Range. — Breeds from northwestern Mexico, southeastern Texas, southern 

 Louisiana, Cuba, the Isle of Pines, and the Bahamas south to Nicaragua. 

 Winter range the same. Accidental in Illinois, Kansas, and Colorado. [A 

 closely related race is found in South America.] 



Subgenus COMPSOHALIEUS Ridgway. 



Compsohalieus Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds 

 N. Amer., II, 1884, 145. Type, by orig. desig., Carbo penicillatus 

 Brandt. 



Phalacrocorax penicillatus (Brandt). Brandt's Cormorant. [122.] 



Carbo jienicillatus Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Ill, 

 No. 4, Nov. 16, 1837, col. 55. (Type locality unknown = Vancouver 

 Island.) 



Range. — Breeds locally from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to Mag- 

 dalena Bay, Lower California. Winters from Puget Sound to Cape San Lucas. 

 Casual on Forrester Island, Alaska. 



Subgenus URILE Bonaparte. 



Urile Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, II, sig. 22, Oct. 1, 1855 [1856], 175. 

 Type, by tautonymy, Pelecanus urile Gmelin. 



