5. Graculus dilophus. Double- crested Cormorant. — On 
June 22, 1870 , a specimen was found in a fyke in the Croton River. 
It must have dived after a fish, and getting entangled in the netting was 
drowned. Mr. George Aylcs got it from the fisherman, and gave it to me. 
It was a male. — A. K. Fisher, Sing Sing, N. Y. 
Bulls U»0.0. 4, Jon, 1879, P t*2. . 
Birds of the Adirondack Region. 
O.H.Merriam 
184 Phalacrocorax dilophus (Sw. and Rich.) Nuttall. Double, 
crested Cormorant. -Mr. F. H. Knowlton, from Brandon, Vermont, 
■writes me: “I shot, on September 24, 1879, at St. Regis’ Lake [Frank- 
lin County], two miles from Paul Smith’s, a young female example of 
Graculus dilophus. The bird was not wild and was easdy shot from 
the Sh0re '” Bull. N .0.0, 7 , April, 1,882, P. /* *. 
ADDENDUM TO ‘A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF THE 
HUDSON HIGHLANDS, WITH ANNOTATIONS.’* 
BY DR. EDGAR A. MEARNS. 
[204. i.] Phalacrocorax dilophus (Sw. and Rich.). Double-crested 
Cormorant. — An adult specimen taken at Cornwall, on the Hudson, 
October xo, 1883; others seen on the upper Hudson November 4, 1889. 
Measurements (No. 2627, Cornwall-on-Hudson, October 10, 1883, E. A. 
Hudson M.) : length, 33.60; alar expanse, 53.65 ; wing, 12.90; tail, 7.80; culmen, 
Highlands. 2.30; gape, 3.60; tarsus, 2.40; middle toe and claw, 3.20; middle claw, 
.47; outer toe and claw, 3.90; outer claw, .38; inner toe and claw, 2.33; 
inner claw, .47 ; hallux with its claw, 1.57 ; claw of hallux, .50 inch. Irides 
green. Feet and claws jet black. Gular pouch orange.Meams, Auk, Vll. Jan, 1 890. p ,$S) 
Auk, XII, July, 1895, p . 3 > 3 . 
6-c^jLo , . 
Phalacrocorax dilophus. Double-crested Cormorant. — Although 
this bird has been taken here before, I met with it last fall for the first 
time in eight years’ experience. Five were shot here, three of which I 
examined. Two were taken October 11, 1894, and the last was shot from 
the shore at Stony Point, November 3, 1894. 
227. A Cormorant in the Adirondacks. By A. R. Fuller. Ibid., XIX, 
No. 16, p. 307, Nov. 16, 1882. — A specimen of Graculus dilophus Linn., 
killed Nov. 9, 1882, at Meacham Lake by F. N. Collins. SOT. & Stream* 
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