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  Phalacrocorax 
  auritus 
  (Lesson) 
  

   Double-crested 
  Cormorant 
  

  

  Plate 
  

  

  Carbo 
  auritus 
  Lesson. 
  Traite 
  d'Ornithologie. 
  1831. 
  p. 
  605 
  

   Phalacrocorax 
  dilophus 
  DeKay. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  293, 
  fig. 
  

   267, 
  268 
  

  

  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2^ 
  1895. 
  No. 
  120 
  

  

  aurl'tus, 
  Lat., 
  eared 
  

  

  Description. 
  Breeding 
  plumage: 
  Mostly 
  glossy 
  black, 
  the 
  back 
  and 
  

   wing 
  coverts 
  coppery 
  gray 
  edged 
  with 
  black; 
  a 
  tuft 
  of 
  curly 
  black 
  feathers 
  

   on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  head 
  ; 
  a 
  few 
  white 
  filaments 
  over 
  the 
  eye 
  ; 
  lores 
  and 
  pouch 
  

   orange; 
  eyelids 
  and 
  mouth 
  deep 
  blue; 
  iris 
  green; 
  feet 
  black. 
  Winter: 
  No 
  

   crest; 
  eyelids 
  dull. 
  Immature: 
  Mostly 
  grayish 
  brown, 
  blackish 
  on 
  rump, 
  

   sides 
  and 
  lower 
  belly 
  ; 
  throat 
  and 
  breast 
  brownish 
  white 
  ; 
  gular 
  sack 
  and 
  base 
  

   of 
  bill 
  yellowish. 
  Tail 
  feathers 
  12. 
  

  

  Length 
  30-34 
  inches; 
  extent 
  50; 
  wing 
  12-13; 
  "tail 
  6-7; 
  bill 
  2.3-2.5; 
  

   gape 
  3.5; 
  tarsus 
  2.1. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  by 
  far 
  the 
  commonest 
  of 
  the 
  order 
  Steganopodes 
  in 
  our 
  State. 
  

   It 
  is 
  a 
  common 
  transient 
  visitant 
  on 
  Long 
  Island 
  in 
  April 
  and 
  May 
  (April 
  

   3 
  to 
  May 
  23 
  and 
  June 
  29) 
  returning 
  from 
  the 
  north 
  August 
  12 
  to 
  September 
  

   17, 
  and 
  last 
  seen 
  October 
  26 
  to 
  November 
  5. 
  It 
  is 
  also 
  found 
  on 
  the 
  Great 
  

   Lakes 
  and 
  other 
  inland 
  waters 
  as 
  an 
  uncommon 
  migrant. 
  Verdi 
  Burtch 
  

   reports 
  a 
  specimen 
  from 
  Branchport, 
  Yates 
  co., 
  August 
  14, 
  1886, 
  but 
  most 
  

   of 
  the 
  records 
  for 
  the 
  interior 
  are 
  late 
  in 
  the 
  season, 
  as 
  follows: 
  Onondaga 
  

   lake, 
  November 
  30, 
  1865; 
  Cayuga 
  lake, 
  November 
  16, 
  1875; 
  Lansingburg, 
  

   November 
  13, 
  1879; 
  Corn 
  wall-on 
  -the-Hudson, 
  October 
  10, 
  1883 
  and 
  Novem- 
  

   ber 
  4, 
  1889; 
  Troy, 
  September 
  21, 
  1888; 
  Buffalo, 
  October 
  11, 
  and 
  November 
  

   3, 
  1894; 
  Canandaigua, 
  November 
  7, 
  1899; 
  Cayuga 
  lake, 
  September 
  29, 
  1905; 
  

   Buffalo, 
  October 
  24, 
  1907; 
  Erie, 
  Pa., 
  October 
  26-December 
  14 
  (Todd). 
  

   There 
  are 
  only 
  two 
  spring 
  records 
  from 
  the 
  interior. 
  Sing 
  Sing, 
  June 
  22, 
  

   1876 
  (Fisher); 
  Crane 
  lake. 
  May 
  17, 
  1897 
  (Taylor). 
  

  

  Cormorants 
  are 
  gregarious 
  in 
  habit, 
  and 
  in 
  flight 
  resem.ble 
  the 
  larger 
  

   ducks, 
  especially 
  the 
  mergansers. 
  They 
  feed 
  on 
  fish, 
  which 
  they 
  take 
  by 
  

   diving 
  after 
  them 
  from 
  the 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  water, 
  or 
  from 
  a 
  low 
  perch. 
  They 
  

   often 
  alight 
  on 
  large 
  trees 
  near 
  the 
  water, 
  when 
  their 
  peculiar 
  shape 
  and 
  

  

  