ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 3L 



GENUS PHALA.CROCORAX BRISS. 



35-119 (750). Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn.). CORMORANT. 



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

 Michigan. 



3-120-(751). Phalacrocorax dilophns (Sw. 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 ia 

 our museum. 



FAMILY PELECANID.33. PELICANS. 



Heavy birds with long, hooked beaks; large pouch beneath the lower jaw; food, fish; 

 either plunge for or scoop up their food. 



GENUS PELECANUS LINN. 



37-125-(748). Pelecanus 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 ANSERES. LAMELLIROSTRAL SWIMMERS. 



FAMILY ANATID^E. DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS. 



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

 some insects, etc. 



SUBFAMILY MERGIN/E. MERGANSERS. 



GENUS MERGANSER. BRISS. 



38-129-(743). Merganser americanus (Cass.}. AMERICAN MERGANSER; MERGAN- 

 SER; GOOSANDER; FISH DUCK. 



Common; "throughout the state" (A. H. Boies); 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 



