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Gends PHALACROCORAX Hhiss. 



35-119-(750). Plialacrocorax carbo (Linn.). Cormorant. 



"An occasional visitor" (Gibbs' Birds of Michigan); oE doubtful occurrence in 

 Michigan. 



3ft-120-(751). Plialacrocorax dilophus (Siv. and Rich.). Double-crested 

 Cormorant. 



"Common at times" (Dr. M. Gibbs); migrant or winter resident; "Southern Mich- 

 igan, Hillsdale Co." (A. H. Boies); "our commonest species" (Jordan); "breeds in 

 great numbers in Wis." (Davie's Nests and Eggs of North American Birds). Dr. Ezra S. 

 Holmes, of Grand Rapids, has a fine male whioh he took in northern Indiana, just over 

 the Michigan line, and Mr. Levi Broas took a fine female near Ionia, which is now in 

 our museum. 



Family PELECANID^E. Pelicans. 



Heavy birds with long, hooked beaks; large pouch beneath the lower jaw; food, fish; 

 either plunge for or scoop up their food. 



Genus PELBCANUS Linn. 



37-125-(748). Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Omel. American White Pelican. 



Very rare; "Hillsdale and Lenawee counties." (A. H. Boies); "one killed on Saginaw 

 Bay, one in St. Joseph Co , and it has been seen in the Upper Peninsula " (Dr. M. 

 Gibbs); one killed in Allegan county (O. and O., Vol. XVII, 1892, p. 143); one in 

 museum from Berrien Co.; "one taken at Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., in 1882 " (L. W. 

 Watkins); " two killed in a flock of forty or fifty, at Cambria, Mich., and now mounted 

 in a store in Hillsdale" (P. M. Falconer); "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland). 



Order ANSERES. Lamellirostral Swimmers. 



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Family ANATID2E. Ducks, Geese and Swans. 



Birds with thick feathers, lamellate bills, palmate feet; food, mostly vegetable, 

 some insects, etc. 



Subfamily MERGING. Mergansers. 



Gends MERGANSER. Briss. 



38-129-(743). Merganser americanus (Cass.). American Merganser; Mergan- 

 ser; Goosander; Fish Duck. 



Common; "throughout the state" (A. H. Boies); migrant or winter resident; 

 reported from St. Clair Flats; "have seen acres of water covered by them in sprint" 

 (Dr. W. C. Brownell); "Kent Co. and Mackinac Island" (S. E. While); " common at Iron 



