42 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Family FHALACROCORACID^. Cormorants. 



Genus FHALACROCORAX Brisson. 



Subgenus FHALACROCORAX. 



Phalacrocorax Briss. Orn. VI. 1760, 511. Type, Pelecanus carbo 

 Linn. 



119. Fhalacrocoraz: carbo (Linn.). 



Cormorant. 



Fekcanus carbo Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 133. 

 Phalacrocorax carbo Leach, Syst. Cat. Mam. and Eds. Brit. Mus. 

 1816, 34. 



[B 620, C 528, R 642, C 750.J 



Geog. Dist. — Coasts of the North Atlantic, south in winter on 

 the coast of the United States, casually, to the Carolinas ; breeding 

 (formerly) from Massachusetts northward. 



120. Phalacrocorax dilophus (Swain.). 



DouWe-crested Cormorant. 



Pelecanus {Carbo) dilophus Swain, in Sw. & Rich. F. B. A. II. 



1831, 473- 

 Phalacrocorax dilophus Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 483. 



LB623, Cs3o, R643, C 75 I.J 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, breeding from the Bay of 

 Fundy, the Great Lakes, Minnesota and Dakota northward ; south in 

 winter to the Southern States. 



120^. Phalacrocorax dilophus floridanus (Aud.). 



Florida Cormorant. 



Phalacrocorax floridanus Aud. Orn. Biog. III. 1835, S^?- 

 Phalacrocorax dilophus floridanus Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 III. Aug. 24, i88o, 205. 



