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iscends the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, stragglers being 

 ;aken at Ottawa, Kingston and, according to Mcllwraith, as far 

 ivest as London, Ont. 



120. Double-crested Cormorant. 



Phalacrocorax dilophus {Svi Am.) Nutt. 1834. 



Equally abundant with P. carbo and breeds in colonies along 

 Newfoundland. {Reeks.) Breeds in numbers along the Atlantic 

 soast and is of frequent occurrence in the Gulf and up the St. 

 Lawrence and throughout Ontario, though we have no account 

 of its breeding in that province. 



Abundant and breeding from Lake Winnipeg, in the eastern 

 part of Manitoba, westward to Old Wives Lake and Crane Lake in 

 A-ssiniboia. It extends northward to Great Slave Lake, but is 

 rare. {Ross.) ' 



Breeding Notes. — On an island in Crane Lake, Assiniboia, 

 June 9th, 1894, I observed twenty-seven nests. The nests, built 

 with sticks and weeds, were from six inches to a foot in height. 

 Only nine of the nests contained eggs, and these had but one 

 each. A few days later (June 20th) all the nests had from one to 

 four eggs in them, and two additional nests had been built. 

 {Spreddborough.) Manitoba and Shoal lakes, Manitoba ; and in 

 Buffalo Lake, Alberta. {Dippie.) 



On June 8th, 1894, I found this bird nesting on islands in Shoal 

 Lake, Manitoba. Nest of sticks and weeds containing from four 

 to five eggs. {Raine.) 



museum specimens. 



One specimen shot at Indian Head, Assa.,inMay 1892 byMr. W. 

 Spreadborough. The egg collection consists of twelve specimens 

 taken on June 20th, 1894, from an island in Crane Lake by Spread- 

 borough. 



\%Qb. White-crested Cormorant. 



Phalacrocorax dilophus cincinatus (Brandt) Ridgw. 1880. 



This bird is a visitor at St. Michael. Alaska, by June loth. It 

 does not occur in great numbers ; only a few breed there. At 

 Besborough Island, some 40 miles north of St. Michael, this bird 

 breeds in abundance on the walls of that inaccessible island. 



