no. iTi'T. BIRDS OF THE t906 " I/./.' ITROSS" CRUISE CL I UK. 43 



Family PI rALACROCORACID/E. a 



PHALACROCORAX FILAMENTOSUS Temminck and Schlegel. 

 TEMMINCKS CORMORANT. 



What was probably this species was very common about the shores 

 of Matsushima at the time of our visit . 



PHALACROCORAX AURITUS ALBOCILIATUS Ridgway. 

 FARRALONE CORMORANT. 



It being impossible to separate this from the following form in 

 observations taken on shipboard, I have arbitrarily placed my records 

 from San Francisco to Puget Sound under the present heading, and 

 the notes from Puget Sound north under P. a. dndnatus as roughly 

 representing the distribution of the two subspecies at the time of my 

 visit. 



This cormorant was seen near the entrance of San Francisco Bay, 

 and was common outside. We met with it at sea all along the coast, 

 and it was abundant off the mouth of the Columbia River. 



PHALACROCORAX AURITUS CINCINATUS (Brandt). 

 WHITE-CRESTED CORMORANT. 



Double-crested cormorants were very common in Puget Sound up 

 to Port Townsend, but less so from there on. They were occasionally 

 seen, however, about Dockton, and two were noticed in Union Bay, 

 Vancouver Island. I have a note of a few being seen in Unalga Pass 

 near Unalaska, and I found them at Atka, Attn, and Agattu. 



PHALACROCORAX PENICILLATUS (Brandt). 

 BRANDT'S CORMORANT. 



This bird was common about San Francisco Bay when we left, 

 and was seen along the coast rather commonly as far north as the 

 Columbia River. 



PHALACROCORAX PELAGICUS RESPLENDENS Audubon. 

 BAIRDS CORMORANT. 



We found this cormorant common about the Golden (late, and 

 abundant all the way up to Puget Sound. On the second day out 

 we passed two flocks, one of fifty or more and the other of upward 

 of one hundred and fifty individuals. It was very abundant oil' the 



a PHALACROCORAX PERSPICILLATUS Pallas. 

 PALLAS' CORMORANT. 



I had hoped that some trace of this magnificenl species, which formerly occurri d 

 on Bering Island, might be Eound on some o!' the little-known islands and rocks at 

 the extreme western end of the Aleutian chain, but in this 1 was disappointed. It 

 is undoubtedly quite extinct. 



