34 BIRDS OF OHIO. 
22. (120.) PHALACROCORAX DILOPHUS (Swain). 272. 
Double-crested Cormorant. 
Synonyms: Graculus dilophus, Pelecanus (Carbo) dilophus. 
Wheaton, Ohio Agri. Report, 1874, 575. 
The cormorants are not well enough known to give us 
much of an idea of their distribution in the state. This one 
appears to be a rare migrant in the western half, probably, 
passing across the state without stopping usually, since 
there is no suitable feeding place except the reservoirs. Dr. 
Wheaton states that this species may have nested at the 
Licking reservoir in earlier years. Mr. Dury found it 
nesting at St. Mary’s reservoir more than twenty years ago. 
Family PELECANID#. Pelicans. 
Of the three species in this family only the American 
White Pelican is found in Ohio. This pelican lives upon 
fish which it scoops up from the water in the capacious 
pouch hanging to its lower mandible. There is no evi- 
dence that it carries either fish or water in the pouch while 
flying, since its young are fed upon partially digested fish 
disgorged from its crop. 
23. (125.) PELECANUS ERYTHRORHYNCHOS Cmel. 271. 
American White Pelican. 
Synonyms: Pelecanus trachyrhynchus, P. onocrotalus. 
White Pelican. 
Kirtland, Ohio Geol. Surv., 1838, 166, 187. 
The pelican is a rare migrant across the state. So con- 
spicuous a bird would be reported generally if it occurred. 
One was shot at the Licking reservoir about May 15, 1902. 
It has been seen at Oberlin twice. The records are few and 
scattering, but seem to indicate that it is confined to the 
western half of the state. 
