588 GEACULUS MEXICAKUS, MEXICAN CORMORANT. 



not specifically distinct from d'doplius, the name will take priority for this species. 

 Schlegel unites the two.) 



Bah. — North America atlarge, in the interior as well as coastwise. Var. floridanus 

 from the South Atlantic and Gulf States, ranging north to the Ohio {Audubon) and to 

 North Carolina (Coues). 



This is the only species of Cormorant known to range generally 

 throughout the interior. Most of the several species attributed to North 

 America occur on the Pacific coast alone, G. carbo being the Atlantic- 

 coast species, and G. mexicanus being from the Gulf and someways up 

 the Mississippi Yalley. 



I am credibly informed of breeding places of this species on the Mis- 

 souri, where, however, I never recognized the bird myself, though I saw 

 it on the Eed Eiver of the North in May. It was first described by 

 Swainson from the Saskatchewan, and it ranges southward through the 

 Missourrregion. It has been found to breed in Labrador and the Gulf 

 of Saint Lawrence, whence it migrates southward in the fall, wintering 

 along the coast from Maine to the Carolinas. Its occurrence at Great 

 Salt Lake and various points on the Pacific coast, from Sitka to Cape 

 Saint Lucas, has been noted. 



GEACULUS MEXICA:jrUS, (Brandt) Bp. 



Mexican Cormorant. 



Carbo mexicanus, Bk^iitdt, Bull. Sc. Aca4. St. Petersh. iii, 1837, 56. 



Graculus mexicanus, Bp., Consp. Av. 11, 1855, 173. — Lawk., B. N. A. 1858, 879.— Sxow, B. 



Kans. 1873, 12 (specimen near Lawrence, Kansas, April, 1872. — CouES, Key, 203. 

 Graculus "floridanus et" mexicanus, Schl., Mus. P.-B. Uvt. iv, 1863, 24 (excl. syn. "toum- 



sendii, AuD.") 

 " Carbo graculus, ex parte, Tejui." {Schlegel.) 

 " Phalacrocorax lacusiris, Gdndl., Mss." {Laivrence.) 

 " Phalacrocorax re^plendens {ad.), et toumsendii 0«''-)) Lemb., Aves de Cuba." 



Hab. — Southern United States and southward. Up the Mississippi Valley to Illinois 

 {Eidgrcay) and Kansas {Snoio). Texas. New Mexico {Henry). Matamoras {Dresser, 

 Ibis, 1866,45). Honduras (Tajtor, Ibis, 1860, 315). Cnha {Lawrence, Gundlach, Lembeye). 



In my present judgment, this species is entirely distinct from G. dilophiis, though 

 nearly allied. Dr. Schlegel is certainly wrong in identifying it with the P. floridanus of 

 Audubon, and in citing as synonymous P. townsgndii ; the latter belongs to penicillatus. 



The claim of this species to a place in the present work rests upon 

 the announcement of its occurrence in Kansas, by Prof. Snow, as above. 



Of the five remaining families of North American birds {ProceUariidie, 

 LaridcE, GolymMdce, Podidpidce, AlcidcB), the first and fifth are marine, 

 and have no representatives in the Slissouri region. They will, there- 

 fore, not be considered in this volume, my material on Procellariidw and 

 AlcidcB being reserved for elaboration in another connection. The other 

 three families will here be treated monographically, to include all the 

 known North American species, biographical items of those found in the 

 Missouri re^on. being added, in correspondence with the general plan 

 of this work. 



