ZOOLOGICAL. DEPAKTMENT. 3L 



Genus PHALACR0("0R-VX Hriss. 



35-119 (75()). Plialacrocorax csLvho {Linn.). Cormorant. 



"An occasional visitor"' (Gibbs' Birds of Michigan); of doubtful occurrence in 

 Michifjan. 



3(>-12(>-(751). Plialacrocorav dilophiis {Stc. and Rich.). Double-crested 

 Cormorant. 



'•Common at times" (Dr. M. Gibbs); migrant or winter resident; '"Southern Mich- 

 igan. Hillsdale Co." (A. H. Boies); "our commonest species" (Jordan); "breeds in 

 great numbers in Wis." (Davie's Nests and Eggs of North American Birds). Dr. Ezra S. 

 Holmes, of Grand Rapids, has a fine male which he took in northern Indiana, just over 

 the Michigan line, and Mr. Levi Broas took a fine female near Ionia, which is now in 

 our museum. 



Family PELECANID.^. Pelicans. 



Heavy birds with long, hooked beaks; large pouch V)eneath the lower jaw; food, fish; 

 either plunge for or scoop up their food. 



Genus PELECANDS Linn. 



37-125 (748). Pelecaniis erythrorhynchos Gmel. American White Pelican. 



Very rare; "Hillsdale and Lenawee counties." (A. H. Boies); '-one killed on Saginaw 

 Bay, one in St. Joseph Co , and it has been seen in the Upper Peninsula " (Dr. M. 

 Gibbs); one killed in Allegan county (O. and O.. Vol. XVII. 1892, p. 143); one in 

 museum from Berrien Co.; "one taken at Tecumseh. Lenawee Co.. in 1882 "(L.W. 

 Watkins); '■ two killed in a flock of forty or fifty, at Cambria. Mich., and now mounted 

 in a store in Hillsdale" (F. M. Falconer): ''Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland). 



Order ANSERP]S. Lamellirostral Swimmers, 



Family ANATID^E. Ducks, Geese and Swans. 



Birds with thick feathers, lamellate bills, palmate feet; food, mostly vegetable, 

 some insects, etc. 



Subfamily MER(HN.F:. Mekcansers. 



Genus MERGANSER. Biuss. 



38-129-(7-t3l. Mer^-aiiser americaiius (Cass.). American Merganser; Mergan- 

 ser; Goosander; Fish Duck. 



Common; "throughout the state" lA. H. Boiesi; migrant or winter resident; 

 reported from St, Clair Flats; 'have seen acres of water covered by them in spring" 

 (Dr, W. C. Brownell); "Kent Co. and Mackinac Island" (S. E. While); '' common at Iron 



