THE BIRDS OF WISCONSIN. 
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ORDER STEGANOPODES: TOTIPALMATE 
SWinriERS. 
FAniLY PHALACROCORACID/E: CORMORANTS. 
Phalaerocorax dilophus (Swain,). DOUBLE-CRESTED COR- 
MORANT. 
Twenty-five to thirty years ago this was a common migrant 
in suitable waters throughout the state. It arrived as soon as 
the ice began to loosen in the small lakes, varying with the 
season from early in March until April, and remained until 
May first. Even when it was more common, comparatively 
few were noticed in the interior during the fall, although more 
plenty on the Mississippi River. Mr. J. N. Clark, writing from 
Dunn County, reports small flocks along the Chippewa River 
in spring, but considers them rare there. A few, we think, 
remain on Lake Michigan during mild winters. During the 
past five years the cormorant has been more plenty than for 
many years previous in Walworth County, and doubtless at 
other suitable places on the line of flig'ht, both in the spring 
and in the fall. A few used to remain on Lake Koshkonong 
all summer, but we have never found them nesting, as they 
probably do in certain counties of the northern part of the 
state. Mr. Chas. F. Carr (1), now of New London, Wisconsin, 
is authority for the statement that "they breed about some of 
the larger, isolated lakes in the northern and central part of 
the state," and "feed at a considerable distance from the 
vicinity of their nesting haunts, and when leaving and returning 
fly at a great height.'' 
FAiilLY PELECANID/E: PELICANS. 
Pelecanus erythrorliynclios Gmel. AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN. 
This once abundant species is now chiefly found along the 
Mississippi River during spring migrations. In past years we 
have observed great flocks of them on Lake Koshkonong in 
April, and often well into May, and we never tired of watching 
them swim up some bay, and forming a line across, slowly 
move toward the shore, nearly every bird with head and neck 
under water. When a fish was captured the head was raised 
until the bill was nearly vertical, and the fish, or as much of it 
as there was room for, swallowed. At these times they were 
1. Wis. Naturalist, 1-2. Sep. 1890. 
