KECOKDS, VOLUME XI, MARCH, 191 9. 55 



Notes on Some Remarkable Birds. 



By Charles J. Mayxard. 



(continued fkom page 58) 



FLORIDA CORMORANT, Phalacrocorax 



jioridanns. 



This is another member of the Order of 

 Totipalmate Swimmers and is quite a re- 

 markable bird, It inhabits the South At- 

 lantic and Gulf States, ranging along the 

 Mississippi Valley northward to Illinois. Al- 

 though in my Birds of Eastern North Amer- 

 ica I considered this and the Double-crested 

 Cormorant (fig. 4) as one species, I now con- 

 sider them entirely separate. Cormorants 

 are robust birds with rather long necks; the 

 wings are rather short with tips folding near 

 the base of the long, stiffened tail. The bill 

 is shorter than the head and strongly hooked 

 at the tip. The gular sac is small, and with 

 other naked skin about the head, is bright 

 orange in color. Adults appear entirely 

 black at a little distance away, but each feath- 



