42 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



FAMILY PHALACROCORACID^J. CORMORANTS. 



GENUS PHALACROCORAX BRISSON. 

 SUBGENUS PHALACROCORAX. 



Phalacrocorax BRISS. Orn. VI. 1760, 511. Type, Pelecanus carbo 

 LINN. 



119. Phalacrocorax carbo (LINN.). 



Cormorant. 



Pelecanus carbo LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 133. 

 Phalacrocorax carbo LEACH, Syst. Cat. Mam. and Bds. Brit. Mus. 

 1816, 34. 



[B 620, C 528, R 642, C 750.] 



GEOG. DIST. Coasts of the North Atlantic, south in winter on 

 the coast of the United States, casually, to the Carolinas ; breeding 

 (formerly) from Massachusetts northward. 



120. Fhalacrocorax dilophus (SWAIN.). 



Double-crested Cormorant. 



Pelecanus (Carbo) dilophus SWAIN, in Sw. & RICH. F. B. A. II. 



1831, 473- 

 Phalacrocorax dilophus NUTT. Man. II. 1834, 483. 



[B6 23 , C 53 o, R6 43 , 0751.] 



GEOG. DIST. Eastern North America, breeding from the Bay of 

 Fundy, the Great Lakes, Minnesota and Dakota northward ; south in 

 winter to the Southern States. 



120 a. Phalacrocorax dilophus floridanus (AUD.). 



Florida Cormorant. 



Phalacrocorax floridanus AUD. Orn. Biog. III. 1835, 3^7' 

 Phalacrocorax dilophus Jloridanus RIDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 III. Aug. 24, 1880, 205. 



