68 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



Breeding Notes. — I saw a number of these birds on the rocky- 

 ledges of Bonaventure island off the Gaspe coast in June, 1897. 

 They had apparently just commenced to lay. Great numbers are 

 also to be met with around the Magdalen islands, their principal 

 breeding resort there, as is well known, being the Great Bird 

 rocks, where still a considerable number hatch their young every 

 year. 1 was unsuccessful in reaching their breeding ground on 

 June 25th, owing to a dense fog, and had much difficulty in find- 

 ing the land after a hard day's work. {Rev. C.J. Young.) 



Family XI. PHALACROCORACID^. Cormorants. 

 XL. PHALACROCORAX Brisson. 1760. 



119. Single-crested Cormorant. 



Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn.) Leach. 1816. 



Said by Holbcell to breed from the Godthaab fjord northward; 

 observed also on the east coast of Greenland. {Arct. Ma?i.) Plenti- 

 ful and breeding along the whole coast of Labrador and New- 

 foundland. It also breeds on the coast of Nova Scotia, {Downs) 

 and on islands in Mace bay, New Brunswick. {Chamberlain.) 

 Common in the Gulf of Si. Lawrence {Dio?ine) and ascends the 

 St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, stragglers being taken at Ottawa, 

 Kingston, Toronto, and, according to Mcllwraith, as far west as 

 London, Ont. 



120. Double-crested Cormorant. 



Phalacrocorax dilophns (Swain.) Nutt. 1834. 



Equally abundant with P. carbo and breeds in colonies along 

 Newfoundland. {Reeks.) Breeds in numbers along the Atlantic 

 coast and is of frequent occurrence in the gulf and up the St. 

 Lawrence and throughout Ontario, though we have no account of 

 its breeding in that province. Fleming says that the majority of 

 the birds seen by him at Toronto were young. 



It extends northward to Great Slave lake, but is rare. {Ross.) 



Abundant and breeding from Lake Winnipeg, in the eastern 

 part of Manitoba, westward to Old Wives lake and Crane lake in 

 Saskatchewan. 



