22 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and at Mingan, Quebec) ; also on islets off theBrit- 

 ish Isles and Iceland. Winters from the coast of Virginia (rarely to Massachu- 

 setts) south to the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, and Vera Cruz, and on the coasts of 

 North Africa, the Canaries, and the Azores. Accidental in Greenland, Labra- 

 dor, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Ontario. 



Family PHALACROCORACIDAE. Cormorants. 



Genus PHALACROCORAX Brisson. 



Phalacrocorax Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 60; VI, 511. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Phalacrocorax Brisson = Pelecanus carbo Linnaeus. 



Subgenus PHALACROCORAX Brisson. 



Phalacrocorax cSrbo carbo (Linnaeus). European Cormorant. [119.] 



Pelecanus Carbo Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 133. (in Europa 

 = Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds from the coasts of western Greenland and Cumberland 

 Sound to the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and on the Magdalens; 

 also breeds in Iceland, the British Isles, and on the coasts of Scandinavia and 

 northern Russia to the Kola Peninsula. Winters from Greenland to New York 

 (Long Island), and casually to Maryland and South Carolina, Ontario and cen- 

 tral New York; also to the Canaries. [Allied races occur in Europe, Asia, and 

 Australia.] 



Phalacrocorax auritus auritus (Lesson). Double-crested Cormorant. [120.] 



Carbo auritus Lesson, Traite d'Orn., Livr. 8, June 11, 1831, 005. (De la 

 Nouvelle-Zelande = North America.) 



Range. — Breeds from central Alberta, Saskatchewan, northern Ontario 

 (James Bay), Gulf of St. Lawrence, and Newfoundland south to northern 

 Nebraska, central Illinois, northeastern Arkansas, South Dakota, southern 

 Minnesota, and Penobscot Bay, Maine (casually). Winters from Virginia 

 (casually Michigan and Maine) south to Florida and on the Gulf coast. Cas- 

 ual in Bermuda and at Great Slave Lake. 



Phalacrocorax auritus floridanus (Audubon). Florida Cormorant. [120a.] 



Carbo floridanus Audubon, Birds Amer. (folio), III, pi. 252, 1835 (Orn. 

 Biog., Ill, 1835, 387). (Florida Keys.) 



Range. — Breeds in Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, the Bahamas, and 

 the Isle of Pines. Winters north to Texas and through its breeding range 

 (except the Carolinas). Casual in the Lesser Antilles. 



