Birds observed in Naval Hospital 
Grounds* Brooklyn, G. H, Ooues 
CO. G-raculus carbo. Cormorant. — One pair seen. 
Bull N. O.O, 4, Jan. , 1879, p.33 
Bird Notes from Long Island, N.Y. 
William Dutcher. 
3. Phalacrocorax carbo. Cormorant.— September 24, 1888, I received 
in the flesh a magnificent specimen of this species from Chas. B. Field, 
who had shot it two days previously near the Little Gull Island Light. 
He subsequently wrote to me in answer to inquiries, “There were two of 
them, both alike. We have a much smaller kind, all black. I often see 
the large kind, both alone and with the smaller black ones. I do not 
know that I have ever seen a flock without a few of the large ones (like 
specimen sent) with them. I have seen in one day, perhaps thirty of the 
large ones, but they are not so plenty as the small ones. Both kinds are 
very wild and hard to get at.” With the aid of observations which Mr. 
Field has promised to make in the future, and the specimens he hopes to 
procure of both the Cormorants credited to Long Island, I trust soon to 
be able to define their status in that district. 
A«k, f*. A*rii, 1889. p. /J9 . 
Iiiaaaaaa 3oo. of Y, 83-89 
Mr. Dutcher 
also read extracts from the journal of the keeper of Little Gull Island 
light-house, Long Island, which related to the birds seen there from Au- 
gust 16, 1888, to the end of the year. The first Cormorants were noted Sep- 
tember 1. One third of those seen on Novembers were “the large kind,” 
supposed to be Phalacrocorax carbo. 
, • . 188 & p. &oo 
Birds of Oneida County, New York. 
Egbert Bagrg. 
Phalacrocorax carbo.— Given in the list on the authority of others only. 
I have had the pleasure of examining a fine specimen, killed on Oneida 
Lake, Oct. 13, 1890. The taxidermist who mounted it informed me that 
“the stomach contained a small fish and a soft-shell crab.” How long 
was this bird from salt water? 
Ank XI. April. 1894 p. 163 
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