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124. Red-faced Cormorant. 



Phalacrocarax urile (Gmel.) Ridgw. 1884 



This is a resident species on the Prybilofi Islands. It is a more 

 or less common summer resident on St. Matthew and St. Law- 

 rence islands as well as upon all the cliffs on both shores of 

 Behring Strait and the islands in the strait. {Nelson.) A single 

 specimen of this bird was obtained at St. Michael. I did not 

 see it elsewhere. (Turner.') 



Breeding Notes. — This species is the earliest of the birds in 

 Behring Sea to lay its eggs. Two eggs from a bed on " the reef," 

 St. Paul Island, June ist, 1872, nearly hatched, which is nearly 

 three weeks in advance of the other waterfowl, almost without 

 exception. The nest is large, carefully rounded up, and built on 

 some jutting point or narrow shelf along the face of a cliff or 

 bluff ; in its construction sea-ferns (Sertularidce), grass, etc., are 

 used, together with a cement made largely of excrement. The. 

 eggs are usually three in number, sometimes four, and, compared 

 with the size of the bird, are exceedingly small. They are oval,, 

 of a dirty whitish-gray, green and blue colour, but soon become 

 soiled, for although this bird's plumage is sleek and bright, yet 

 it is very slovenly and filthy about its nest. {Elliott.) 



Family XII. PELECANIDiE. Pelicans. 

 XLI. PELECANUS Linn^us. 1758. 



125. American White Pelican. 



Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmel. i 788. 



Accidental in New Brunswick ; one shot at Point du Chene 

 and another at Cape Spenser. {Chamberlain.) Stragglers are 

 occasionally taken on Lake Ontario and others on Lake Erie, 

 but there are no accounts of its breeding in any part of Ontario. 



Found on all the large lakes throughout northern Manitoba 

 and Assiniboia and Saskatchewan. According to Thompson they 

 formerly bred on Shoal Lake in Manitoba, but the settling of the 

 country has caused them to move farther north. The writer has 

 found them on Lake Winnipegoosis,"Long Lake, Old Wives Lake, 

 the Great Quill Lakes and Crane Lake, where they were breeding 



