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KEY AND DESCRIPTION 



Length, 36; wing, 13i (12i-14) ; tail, ~\; tarsus, 2; culmen, 2J-3. 

 Coasts of the Nortli Atlantic of both Old and New Worlds ; breeding 

 from tlie Bay of Fundy norLliward, and wintering cas- 

 ually south to the Carolinas. 



2. Double- crested Cormorant (120. Phalacrd- 

 corax dildjjhus). — A eummon, double-crested, 

 black cormorant, with a greenish irides- 

 cence • to the feathers of the head, 

 neck, and body, and coppery-gray 

 to those of the back and wings. 

 r)are skin on sides of the head, 

 around the eyes orange (in life). 

 There is a tuft of curling feath- 

 ers on each side of the head, 

 above the eyes, form- 

 ing the "double crest." 

 This is the " cormo- 

 rant" of the Middle 

 States. The young 

 lias a white breast 

 changing to gray on 

 the throat, and black on the lower belly. It is like the last 

 species in being nuuh In-owner on the head, back neck, and 

 upper back than is the adult. 



Length, 32; wing, 12J (12-13); tail, 6J ; tarsus, 2; culmen, 2-2^. 

 Eastern North America ; breeding 

 from the Bay of Fundy and Dakota 

 northward, and wintering from Mary- 

 land and soutlicrn Illinois southwaril. 

 The Florida Cormorant (120«. P. d. 

 flnridanns) is nmch like the last in 

 color, but smaller. Wing, 11 1 (11{- 

 12^). Common on the Gulf coast, 

 South Atlantic and Gulf States, north 

 to southern Illinois. 



Cormorant 



Double-crested Cormorant 



3. Mexican Cormorant (121. Phalacrdcorax mexicdnus). — A 

 small, southwestern cormorant with intense violet-pur])lish 

 luster on the black of the body. The pouch on the neck is 



