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The Double-Crested Cormorant near Springfield, Mass. — A male 
Double-crested Cormorant {Pknlacrocorax dilopkus) was taken at Long 
meadow, four miles from here, May 6, 1887, in full breeding plumage. I 
have not known ofone in this vicinity at this season of the year before, and 
only twice before in the autumn.— Robert O. Morris, Springfield , Mass. 
Auk, 4, July 14187, p. £4 3 . 
Birds of Bristol County, Mass. 
F. W. Andros. 
Phalacrocorax dilophus (Sw. and Rich.), Dou- 
ble-crested Cormorant. Winter visitant, oc- 
curs under the same circumstances as the fore- 
going species. 
0,<&0. xn. Sept. 1887 p.138 
General Notes. 
The Double-crested Cormorant. — I have read with interest an article 
on the ‘Habits of the Double-crested Cormorant’ in ‘The Auk’ for January, 
1894. For the last ten years I have spent one day in the last part of Sep- 
tember on the Graves at the entrance to Boston Harbor, the resort for 
the Cormorants of the north shore. I try to get there on a rising tide, 
believing that the Cormorants which I drive away fly to an outlying ledge 
of the Brewsters and there sit on the seaweed until driven off by the 
tide, when they fly back to the high rocks of the Graves. I geneially take 
two'decoys which I put on the top of the rocks and hide myself in a cleft. 
I generally shoot four or five and try and justify my doing so by giving 
them to an old inhabitant of Swampscott, in his day a sportsman, who 
puts them through that process of dissolution which is said to make Coot 
palatable (but which doesn’t), and eats them. I have often seen the balls 
offish bones lying on the rocks described by Mr. Mac.kay, rejections after 
digestion by the Cormorant, and have, as he says, invariably found the 
throat of the bird full offish, generally the common sea perch.— Charles 
P. Curtis, Jr., Boston, Mass . April. 1894 p. 176 
General Notes. 
On October 
one flock were 
x S , x 894, thirty-two Cormorants (variety not known) m 
noted flying towards the south. — George H. Mackay, 
Nantucket , Mass. 
Auk XII, Jan. 1896 Pi 77 
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