544 BIRDS — GKACULIDiE. 



tons white ones, over the eyes and along the sides of the neck ; white flank-patoh not 

 observed in the specimens examined, hnt probably occurring ; gular sac and lores orange. 

 Eyes green. Length, 30-33 inches ; wing, 12 or more ; tail, 6 or more ; bill along gape, 

 8-J- ; tarsus a little over 2. Young, plain dark-brown, paler or grayish (even white on the 

 breast) below, without head plumes 

 Habitat, North America at large, in the interior as well as coastwise. 

 Not common spring and fall migrant. This variety of the Cormo- 

 rant is perhaps not now to be found breeding in the State, though it is 

 said to have nested years ago at the Licking Reservoir. I have seen 

 specimens of this variety taken there recently, during the migrations. 

 It appears to be the only variety found throughout the State during the 



spring migration. 



Graculus dilophus (Sw.) Gray. 



var. FLORiDANUs (Aud.) Coues. 



Florida C3orraorant» 

 fhracalus dilophus var. floridwnus, Wheaton; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Eep. for 



1874, 575; Keprint, 1875, 15.— CouES, Key, 1873, 303.— Langdon, Cat. Birds of Cin^ 



1877, 18 ; Journ. Gin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1878, 117 ; Reprint, 8 ; Revised List, Journ. 



Gin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 186; Reprint, 20; Summer Birds, ib., iii, 1880, 229; 



Field Notes, ib., il, 1880, 127. 

 Phalacrocorax floridaniis, Audubon, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 387. 

 Graculus floridanus, Bonaparte, Consp. Av., 1855, 172. 

 Chraculus dilophus var. ftondanus, Coues, Key, 1872, 303. 



Similar to the preceding, smaller (wing, 12 or less ; tail, 6 or less ; tarsus a little 

 under 2), but bill as large if not larger ; gape nearly 4. The plumage is exactly the 

 same, excepting, probably, that white plumes are not developed. There are said to be 

 certain differences in the life-colors of the bills (blue instead of yellow on under mandi- 

 ble and edges of upper. — Audubon). This is simply a localized southern race of dilophus, 

 smaller in general dimensions, with relatively larger bill, as usual in such cases ; the sac 

 •eems to be more extensively denuded. 



Habitat, South Atlantic and Gulf States, ranging north to the Ohio and to North 

 Carolina. 



Spring and fall migrant in Western Ohio, summer resident in some 

 localities. Breeds. I have never known of the occurrence of this variety 

 in spring in the vicinity of Columbus or eastward, but it sometimes 

 occurs on our river and canal in late summer and fall. Mr. Langdon 

 (Summer Birds, 1. c ), notes H;s capture in June, at Sandusky Bay, and in 

 his Observations on Cincinnati Birds gives the following : 



" Mr. Dury has favored me with an exceedingly interesting account of the former 

 abundance of this species at St. Mary's Reservoir, in which he says : ' On the south side 

 of the Reservoir, about seven miles from Celina, was the ' Water Turkey ' Rookery. 

 Here I used to go to shoot them, with the natives who wanted them for their feathers ; 

 I have helped kill a boat load. 



" ' One season I climbed up to their nests and got a cap full of eggs. The nests were 



