68 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
BREEDING Notes.—I saw a number of these birds on the rocky 
ledges of Bonaventure island off the Gaspé coast in June, 1897. 
They had apparently just commenced to lay. Great numbers are 
also to be met with around the Magdalen islands, their principal 
breeding resort there, as 1s well known, being the Great Bird 
rocks, where still a considerable number hatch their young every 
year. | was unsuccessful in reaching their breeding ground on 
June 25th, owing to a dense fog, and had much difficulty in find- 
ing the land after a hard day’s work. (Rev. C./. Young.) 
Famity XI. PHALACROCORACIDAS. Cormorants. 
XL. PHALACROCORAX Brisson. 1760. 
119. Single-crested Cormorant. 
Phatacrocorax carbo (LINN.) LEACH. 1816. 
Said by Holbeell to breed from the Godthaab fjord northward; 
observed also on the east coast of Greenland. (Avct. Man.) Plenti- 
ful and breeding along the whole coast of Labrador and New- 
foundland. It also breeds on the coast of Nova Scotia, (Dowzs) 
and on islands in Mace bay, New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) 
Common in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Dzonne) and ascends the 
St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, stragglers being taken at Ottawa, 
Kingston, Toronto, and, according to McIlwraith, as far west as 
London, Ont. 
120. Double-crested Cormorant. 
Phalacrocorax dilophus (Swain.) Nutt. 1834. 
Equally abundant with P. carbo and breeds in colonies along 
Newfoundland. (eeks.) Breeds in numbers along the Atlantic 
coast and is of frequent occurrence in the gulf and up the St. 
Lawrence and throughout Ontario, though we have no account of 
its breeding in that province. Fleming says that the majority of 
the birds seen by him at Toronto were young. 
It extends northward to Great Slave lake, but is rare. (Ross.) 
Abundant and breeding trom Lake Winnipeg, in the eastern 
part of Manitoba, westward to Old Wives lake and Crane lake in 
Saskatchewan. 
