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47. Sula sula. Booby. 



There is but a single Long Island record, one bird taken at 

 Moriches Bay (Butcher, Auk, x, 1S93, p. 270). 



48. Sula bassana. Gannett. 



A comparatively common, regular transient visitor. INIarch 

 23 (jNIontauk) to May 9 (Montauk) and October 5 (INIontauk) 

 to December 5 (INIontauk) and December 4 (Rockaway). 

 It is most common in November when large numbers are fre- 

 quently observed, usually far outside the beach. 



49. Phalacrocorax carbo. Cormorant. 



Apparently a rare transient visitor. INIr. William Dutcher 

 records a specimen from Little Gull Island Light, Sept. 24, 1888. 

 The keeper of the light who secured this bird wrote that they 

 were apparently not rare at about that season but less common 

 than the Double-crested Cormorant with which they were 

 usually associated (Dutcher, Auk, vi, 1889, p. 133). The 

 same observer has reported that on November 8 a number of 

 cormorants was seen of which about one third were believed 

 to be of this species (Auk, vi, 1889, p. 200). 



50. Phalacrocorax dilophus. Double-crested Cormorant. 



This species is a common migrant in the fall. Occasional in 

 summer. Aug. 26 (Montauk) to Nov. 5 (Jamaica Bay) and 

 April 20 (Jamaica Bay) to May 15 (Montauk). In flight these 

 birds are doubtless often mistaken for wild geese, to which 

 their manner of flying, in an apparently angled figure, bears a 

 close resemblance. At a distance, at which their color is not 

 distinguishable, they are, no doubt, often thus confused. Hence, 

 doubtless, the name ^'Nigger Geese" by which they are called 

 by the baymen on Long Island and elsewhere. 



51. Pelecanus erythrorhynchos. American White Pelican. 

 A specimen in the Long Island Historical Society is from 



