34 BIRDS OF OHIO. 



22, (120.) Phalacrocorax dilophus (Swain). 272. 



Double-crested Cormorant. 

 Synonyms: Graculus dilophus, Pelecanus (Carbo) dilophus. 

 Wheaton, Ohio Agri. Report, 1874, 575. 



The cormorants are not well enough known to give us 

 much of an idea of their distribution in the state. This one 

 appears to be a rare migrant in the western half, probably, 

 passing across the state without stopping usually, since 

 there is no suitable feeding place except the reservoirs. Dr. 

 Wheaton states that this species may have nested at the 

 Licking reservoir in earlier years. Mr. Dury found it 

 nesting at St. Mary's reservoir more than twenty years ago. 



Family Pelecanid^. Pelicans. 



Of the three species in this family only the American 

 White Pelican is found in Ohio. This pelican lives upon 

 fish which it scoops up from the water in the capacious 

 pouch hanging to its lower mandible. There is no evi- 

 dence that it carries either fish or water in the pouch while 

 flying, since its young are fed upon partially digested fish 

 disgorged from its crop. 



23. (125.) Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Cmel. 271. 

 American White Pelican. 



Synonyms: Pelecanus trachyrhynchus, P. onocrotalus. 



White Pelican. 

 Kirtland, Ohio Geol. Surv., 1838, 166, 187. 



The pelican is a rare migrant across the state. So con- 

 spicuous a bird would be reported generally if it occurred. 

 One was shot at the Licking reservoir about May 15, 1902. 

 It has been seen at Oberlin twice. The records are few and 

 scattering, but seem to indicate that it is confined to the 

 western half of the state. 



