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The Wilson Bulletin — No. 62. 



usually silent when crouching away from danger. The very 

 young birds showed no fear, but the older ones clearly did. 



One can readily distinguish between this species and 

 Baird's Cormorant by the presence of the two white patches 



Fig. 3. 



Jones, 1907, 



White-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax cUlophus cincinnatus). A 

 two-nest colony. Carroll Islet, Wash. 



each side of the base of the tail in Baird's and no such mark- 

 ings in the White-crested. Baird's is also noticeably smaller. 

 Brandt's Cormorant was the only other member of this group 



