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Family PHALACROCORACID.E. Cormorants. 

 Cormorant (Plialacrorcorax carhn). It is not cunimon south of Maine, 

 and is rare in this vicinity. 



Double-crested Cormorant {Flnilacrocorax anritiis). A common sprmg 

 and fall migrant. 



Family PELECANID^. Pelicans 



White Pelican (Pclecanus crythrorhynchos) . Now rare or accidental on 



the Atlantic coast. Two specimens have been taken in this vicinity, one at 



Canarsie Bay, L. I. (Butcher, Auk, X, 1,893, P- 270). the other, a male, at 

 Roslyn, May 11, 1885 (Forest and Stream, XXIV, 1885, p. 328). 



Brown Pelican {Pclecanus occichiitalis). Breeds as far north as South 

 Carolina and occasionally strays up the coast, as far as ]\Iassachusetts. DeKay 

 records a specimen from Sandy Hook. 



Order ANSERES. Lamellirostral Swimmers. 



Family ANATID.E. Ducks, Geese and Swans. 



American Merganser; Shelldrake (Merganser americaniis) . Not com- 

 mon from November to April. 



Red-breasted Merganser; Shelldrake (Merganser serrator) . On Long 

 Island it is a very common spring and fall migrant (Butcher, MS). 



Hooded Merganser ( Lophodytes cticuUatus) . A not common migrant 

 and occasional winter visitant. 



Mallard (Anas boschas). An irregular transient visitant, occurring in 

 spring, winter and fall. 



*Black Duck (Anas obscura). Breeds from New Jersey to Labrador and 

 winters from Massachusetts southward. It formerly nested in this vicinity, but 

 now is found chiefly as a migrant, and less commonly in the winter. It still nests 

 at some points on the Jersey coast and in a few localities on Long Island, 

 (Butcher, MS). (See group, second flloor). 



The Red-legged Black Duck, a supposed race of the Black Buck has been 

 recorded from Long Island by Braislin (Auk, XXI. 288). but the status of this 

 form is as yet too unsettled to make it desirable definitely to introduce it here. 



Gadwall ( Chaulclasnius strcperus). A very rare migrant in this vicinity. 



European Widgeon (Mareca penelope). An Old World species which 

 occurs rarely on our coast. It has been taken at Leonia. N. J. (Chapman, Auk, 

 VI, 1889, p. 302). 



