62 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



FAMILY PHALACROCORAGIDJE. CORMORANTS. 



GENUS PHALACROCORAX BRISSON. 



Phalacrocorax BRISSON, Orn., VI, 1760, 511. Type, by tautonymy, 

 [Phalacrocorax] phalacrocorax BRISSON = Pelecanus carbo LINN^US. 



SUBGENUS PHALACROCORAX. 



Phalacrocorax carbo (LiNN^us). Cormorant. [119.] 



Pelecanus carbo LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 133. (Sweden.) 



RANGE. Northern Hemisphere. Breeds from central Greenland 

 south to Nova Scotia, and east through Europe and Asia to Kam- 

 chatka; winters from southern Greenland south to Long Island, 

 casually to Lake Ontario and South Carolina, and from the Medi- 

 terranean south to southern Africa, Australia, and Malay Peninsula. 



Phalacrocorax auritus (LESSON). 

 RANGE. North America. 



a. Phalacrocorax auritus auritus (LESSON). Double- crested Cormorant. 



[120]. 



Carbo auritus LESSON, Traite" d'Orn., 1831, 605. (" Nouvelle-Ze"lande " = 

 North America.) 



RANGE. Eastern North America. Breeds from central Saskatchewan 

 (casually Great Slave Lake), southern Keewatin, northeastern Quebec, and 

 Newfoundland south to northern Utah, South Dakota, southern Minnesota, 

 and Penobscot Bay, Maine; winters from North Carolina (casually Massa- 

 chusetts) south to Gulf coast ; casual in Bermuda. 



b. Phalacrocorax auritus floridanus (AUDUBON). Florida Cormorant. [1 20o.] 



Carbo floridanus AUDUBON, Birds Amer. (folio), III, 1835, pi. 252. (Flor- 

 ida Keys.) 



RANGE. Subtropical and temperate North America. Breeds from south- 

 ern Illinois, Louisiana, North Carolina, Bahamas, and Cuba south to British 

 Honduras and Yucatan ; winters north to Texas and South Carolina ; wanders 

 to the Dismal Swamp, Virginia; accidental in the Lesser Antilles. 



