544. BIRDS—GRACULIDA. 
tous white ones, over the eyes and along the sides of the neck; white flank-patch not 
observed in the specimens examined, but probably occurring; gular sac and lores orange. 
Eyes green. Length, 30-33 inches; wing, 12 or more; tail, 6 or more; bill along gape, 
34; tarsus a little over 2. Young, plain dark-brown, paler or grayish (even white on the 
breast) below, without head plnmes. 
Habitat, North America at large, in the interior as well as coastwise. 
Not common spring and fall migrant. This variety of the Cormo- 
rant is perhaps not now to be found breeding in the State, though it is 
said to have nested years ago at the Licking Reservoir. I have seen 
specimens of this variety taken there recently, during the migrations. 
It appears to be the only variety found throughout the State during the 
spring migration. 
GRACULUS DILOPHUS (Sw.) Gray. 
var. FLORIDANUS (Aud.) Coues. 
Hlorida Cormorant, 
Graculus dilophus var. floridanus, WHEATON, Food of Birds, ete., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 
1874, 575; Reprint, 1875, 15.—Couxs, Key, 1872, 303.—LaNepon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 
1877, 18; Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1678, 117 ; Reprint, 8; Revised List, Journ. 
Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 186; Reprint, 20; Summer Birds, ib., iii, 1880, 229; 
Field Notes, ib., ii, 1880, 127. 
Phalacrocorax floridanus, AUDUBON, Orn. Biog., ili, 1835, 387. 
Graculus floridanus, BONAPARTE, Conep. Av., 1855, 172. 
Graculus dilophus var. floridanus, CouES, Key, 1872, 303. 
Similar fo the preceding, smaller (wing, 12 or less; tail, 6 or less; tarsus a little 
under 2), but bill as large if not larger; gape nearly 4. The plumage is exactly the 
game, excepting, probably, that white plumes are not developed. There are said to be 
eertain differences in the life-colors of the bills (blue instead of yellow on under mandi- 
ble and edges of upper.—Audubon). This is simply a localized southern race of dilophus, 
smaller in general dimensions, with relatively larger bill, as usual in such cases; the sac 
seems to be more extensively denuded. | 
Habitat, South Atlantic and Gulf States, ranging north to the Ohio and to North 
Carolina. : : 
Spring and fall migrant in Western Ohio, summer resident in some 
localities. Breeds. Ihave never known of the occurrence of this variety 
in spring in the vicinity of Columbus or eastward, but it sometimes 
occurs on our river and canal in late summer and fall. Mr. Langdon 
(Summer Birds, |. c ), notes its capture in June, at Sandusky Bay, and in 
his Observations on Cincinnati Birds gives the following: 
““ Mr. Dury has favored me with an exceedingly interesting account of the former 
abundance cf this species at St. Mary’s Reservoir, in which he says: ‘On the south side 
of the Reservoir, 2about seven miles from Celina, was the ‘Water Turkey’ Rookery. 
Here I used to go to shoot them, with the natives who wanted them for their feathers ; 
I have helped kill a boat load. 
“¢ One season I climbed up te their nests and got a cap full of eggs. The nests were 
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