64 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Phalacrocorax pelSgicus Pallas. 

 Range. — Coasts of the North Pacific. 



a. Fhalacrocoraz pelagicus pelagicus Pallas. Pelagic Cormorant. [123.] 



Phalaarocorax pelagicus Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiatioa, II, 1826 (1811?), 

 303. (Kamchatkan seas, and Aleutian Islands.) 



Range. — Aleutian and Kuril islands and Kamchatka south to southern 

 China. 



b. Fhalacrocoraz pelagicus robustus Ridgway. Violet-green Cormorant. 



[123a.] 



Phalaarocorax pelagicus robustus Ridgwat, in Water Birds N. A., II, 

 1884, 160. (Coast of Alaska.) 



Range. — Norton Sound, Alaska, south to Washington; accidental at 

 Point Barrow, Alaska. 



c. Fhalacrocoraz pelagicus respUndens Audubon. Baird's Cormorant. 



[1236.] 



Phalaarocorax resplendens Audubon, Birds Amer. (folio), IV, 1838, pi. 

 412, fig. 1. (Cape Disappointment, Washington.) 



Range. — Pacific coast of North America, from northern Washington south 

 to Cape San Lucas and Mazatlan, Mexico. 



Phalacrocorax urile (Gmelin). Red-faced Cormorant. [124.] 



Pelecanus urile Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 575. (Kamchatka.) 



Range. — Aleutian and other islands of Bering Sea to Bering Strait, 

 Kuril Islands, and Kamchatka. 



Family PELi:CANID.£. Pelicans. 



Genus PELECANUS Linn^us. 



Pelecanus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 132. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Pelecanus onocrotalus Linn^us (Gray, 1840). 



Subgenus CTRTOFELICANTTS Reichbnbach. 



Cyrtopelicanus Reichenbach, Syst. Avium, 1852, vii. Type, by orig. 

 desig., Pelecanus trachyrhynchus Latham = P. erythrorhynchos Gmelin. 



