The Common Cormorant off Boston Harbor. — On the 22tl of Septem- 
ber, 1884, while shooting on the ‘Graves,’ a dry reef a few miles off the 
entrance to Boston Harbor, I secured a Common Cormorant ( Pkalacroco - 
rax carbo'). It was the only one seen, the rest of the Cormorants being 
P. dilophus , and at once attracted my companion’s notice by its large size 
and whitish underparts. Inquiries made of local collectors and fishermen 
failed to elicit any proof of its occurrence at this point, although ‘way 
north’ they ‘saw them often.’ — Wm. A. Jeffries, Boston , Mass. 
Axxk, 2, Jaa. , 1886, p. //£. 
The Common Cormorant in Massachusetts. — Although several recent 
authors have characterized Phalacrocorax carbo as a common fall or win- 
ter visitor to this State, the specimen recorded by Mr. Jeffries in the pre- 
ceding paragraph is the only authentic Massachusetts one of which I have 
any present knowledge. Very probably there are a few others scattered 
about in collections, but it is nearly certain that the bird, so far from 
being common, is extremely rare here. Along the coast of Maine, how- 
ever, it winters regularly and in large numbers, especially at some small 
islands near the mouth of the Penobscot River, whence I have received 
several specimens through the kindness of Mr. Manly Hardy. This gen- 
tleman writes me that P. dtlop/ius is not found there in winter, nor have I 
any record of its wintering in Massachusetts, although it is a common 
spring and fall migrant here. — William Brewster, Cambridge , Mass. 
^ 3 , jan., j, 8 d&. p. //cl. 
Birds of Bristol County . Mass. 
F. W._Andros. 
Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn.), Cormorant. 
Winter visitant, occasionally seen off the coast. 
O &O. XII. Sept. 1887 p.138 
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