350 Kossk, Birds of Cape Disappointment, Wash. ae 
Crew at this place, who killed it with an oar, after driving it up against a 
fish net.” This species is said to be abundant near Tillamook lighthouse, 
which is about twenty miles south of Cape Disappointment. 
5. Phalacrocorax dilophus cincinatus. WHITE-CRESTED CORMORANT. 
— This Cormorant is a very abundant species during the entire year, but 
especially so in the winter and spring. They are rather wary birds to 
hunt, but may always be shot while sitting upon the stakes which support 
the fish pots. They sometimes perch upon these poles for hours and 
oftentimes may be seen with their wings half spread, by which means 
they dry them. Although the birds remain throughout the summer, I 
did not find them nesting upon the numerous cliffs of the.cape and am 
certain they do not breed in this locality. This species is without doubt 
the one referred to by Mr. R. H. Lawrence in his list of birds of Gray’s 
Harbour which appeared in ‘The Auk,’ Vol. IX, 1892, p. 353. 
6. Phalacrocorax pelagicus robustus. VIOLET-GREEN CORMORANT. — 
The Violet-green Cormorant is only found upon the cape during the 
winter months, when it is very abundant. It arrives in the fall and 
departs rather late in the spring. During its stay upon the cape it asso- 
ciates with the White-crested Cormorant and the two species may often 
be seen perched upon the fish-trap poles in large flocks. Both species 
frequently fly into the fish pots from which they are unable to escape, 
since they are unable to fly vertically upward. It is an easy matter for 
the birds to fly from the poles downward into the square pot formed of 
netting, but after they once get in they are forced to remain and are gen- 
erally killed by the fishermen. 
7. Merganser serrator, RED-BREASTED MERGANSER.— Rare. Only 
two specimens shot during fall migration of 1897. 
8. Anas boschas. Matiarp.— Not abundant. A few flocks occasion- 
ally seen upon the lake during migrations. 
9g. Nettion carolinensis. GREEN-wINGED TEAL.— Rare. One speci- 
men killed by me out of a flock of three driven upon the ocean beach by 
a severe storm. ‘This was during the winter. 
10. Dafila acuta. PrINTait.— This species is sometimes seen upon the 
lake, but very rarely and then only during the winter. 
11. Aythya vallisneria. CANvAs-BACK.— This is the only species of 
the subfamilies Anatine and Fuliguline which may be said to really 
inhabit the cape, with the exception of the Scoters (O¢demza). The Can- 
vas-backs arrived in November, 1897, and remained until the following 
March. There were immense flocks of them upon the bay, but after a 
few months they became very ‘ fishy’ and unfit for the table. 
12. Oidemia perspicillata. Surr ScorTer.—A very abundant species. 
One of the first Ducks to arrive in September and the last to leave in 
April. | Feeds extensively on mussels and always swallows the shells,. 
some of them being empty or else filled with mud. When rowing upon 
the bay on a bright, or at least not a stormy day, large flocks of these 
Ducks;are often frightened at the approach of the boat and take to wing, 
