62 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Family PHALACROCORACID.S:. Cormorants. 



Gentts PHALACROCORAX Brisson. 



Phalacrocorax Brisson, Orn., VI, 1760, 511. Type, by tautonymy, 

 [Phalacrocorax] phalacrocorax Brisson = Pelecanus carlo Linnaeus. 



Subgenus PHALACROCORAX. 



Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn^us). Cormorant. [119.] 



Pelecanus carbo LinnjEUs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 133. (Sweden.) 



Range. — Northern Hemisphere. Breeds from central Greenland 

 south to Nova Scotia, and east through Europe and Asia to Kam- 

 chatka; winters from southern Greenland south to Long Island, 

 casually to Lake Ontario and South Carolina-, and from the Medi- 

 terranean south to southern Africa, Australia, and Malay Peninsula. 



Phalacrocorax auritus (Lesson). 

 Range. — North America. 



a. Phalacrocorax auritus auiitus (Lesson). Double-crested Cormorant. 

 [120]. 



Carbo auritus Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 605. ("Nouvelle-Z^lande" = 

 North America.) 



Range. — Eastern North America. Breeds from central Saskatchewan 

 (casually Great Slave Lake), southern Keewatin, northeastern Quebec, and 

 Newfoundland south to northern Utah, South Dakota, southern Minnesota, 

 and Penobscot Bay, Maine; winters from North Carolina (casually Massa- 

 chusetts) south to Gulf coast ; casual in Bermuda. 



2>. Phalacrocorax auritus floridfinug (Audubon). Florida Cormorant. [120a.] 



Carbo floridanus Audubon, Birds Amer. (folio). III, 1835, pi. 252. (Flor- 

 ida Keys.) 



Range. — Subtropical and temperate North America. Breeds from south- 

 ern Illinois, Louisiana, North Carolina, Bahamas, and Cuba south to British 

 Honduras and Yucatan; winters north to Texas and South Carolina ; wanders 

 to the Dismal Swamp, Virginia; accidental in the Lesser Antilles. 



