CORMORANTS. 



47. CORMORANT. 



Large, 38, blue black throughout; gra}'- 

 ish above ; prominent white patch on flanks 

 and upper throat; gular sac. orange; feet 

 black. Young, brown above, ver}^ light be- 



Double-crested Cormoranr. 1-16. 



neath, but there are no white patches as in 

 the adult. 



Atlantic coast of N. A., breeding from 

 the Gulf of St Lawrence northward in Ma}' ; 

 goes south in Nov, north in April winters 

 from Greenland to N. J.; comcuon north of 

 the U. S., uncommon in N. E. and south of it. 



