76 CORMORANTS. 



47. CORMORANT. 

 Large, 38, blue black throughout, gray- 

 ish above ; prominent white patch on flanks 

 and upper throat; gular sac, orange; feet 

 black. Young, brown above, very light be- 



Fig. 48. 



Double-crested Cormorant. 1-16. 



neath, but there are no white patches as in 

 the adult. 



Atlantic coast of N. A., breeding from 

 the Gulf of St Lawrence northward in May ; 

 goes south in Nov, north in April winters 

 from Greenland to N. J. ; common north of 

 the U. S., uncommon in N. E. and south of it. 



