. The birds of Wyoming . to find this speciesas a summer resident. 70. Sterna hirundo Linn. Common Tern. Migratory; rare. Two, specimens were taken by McCar-thy on Horse creek, Sweetwater river, 1859. It has also beentaken at Cheyenne by Bond. yy. Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis (Gmel.).Black Tern. Migratory; rare. Williston reports taking this bird onMay 20, 1879, at Como lake. Bond has taken it at Cheyenne,and I have seen what I concluded must be this species at Hut-tons lake in November, 1898. Dr. Jesurun has seen this spe-cies at Douglas. CORMORANTS. 119. Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn.). Corm
. The birds of Wyoming . to find this speciesas a summer resident. 70. Sterna hirundo Linn. Common Tern. Migratory; rare. Two, specimens were taken by McCar-thy on Horse creek, Sweetwater river, 1859. It has also beentaken at Cheyenne by Bond. yy. Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis (Gmel.).Black Tern. Migratory; rare. Williston reports taking this bird onMay 20, 1879, at Como lake. Bond has taken it at Cheyenne,and I have seen what I concluded must be this species at Hut-tons lake in November, 1898. Dr. Jesurun has seen this spe-cies at Douglas. CORMORANTS. 119. Phalacrocorax carbo (Linn.). accidental. There is but one recorded for Wyo-ming and that is from Bond of Cheyenne. 120. Phalacrocorax dilophus (Swain.). Double-crested Cormorant. Summer resident; rare. A single specimen was taken froma small lake in the Clear Creek valley just west of Buffalo inJuly, 1897. This was a female and judging from her actionshad a brood at some place about the lake. This specimen is The Birds of Wyoming. 2^. F/RST ^f^;- y^hmJ^^oncL; £r. z. p/iAiHie FALCON. 3- makbled godwit ■4-. cuffi-ctv e. aof/APAm-Es suli. 30 Wyoming Experiment Station. in the Wyoming collection and was donated by Mr. West ofBuffalo. PELICANS. 125. Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmel. American White Pelican. Resident, rare; migratory, common. In late spring thisspecies usually visits the large ponds and sub-alpine lakes andbreeds in a few localities. Dr. Grinnell in a private letter to mestates that he found several fledglings on the Medicine Bowriver about the year 1881; he also reports them from the Yel-lowstone lake, 1875. Bond reports them from Cheyenne; from Douglas. Several have been killed at Huttonslake, Albany county, and I have seen large flocks about theselakes several times in late spring. 126. Pelecanus occidentalis Linn. Brown Pelican,Accidental. A single specimen has been taken by Bondat Cheyenne and is now in the high school collection in Chey-
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