. The Canadian bird book [microform] : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds : also several hundred photographs of their nest and eggs. Oiseaux; Birds. it I H- â ' THE BIfiD BOOK Hi. Brandt's Cormorant. Phalacrocorax penicUUiiu$. Range.âPacific coast breeding along the whole coast of the United States. This species is found more abundantly on the Faral- lones than is the Farallone Cormorant. Like the other Cormorants breeding on these islands, these cling closely to their nests, for fear of being robbed by the OuUs, that are ever on the watch to steal eith
. The Canadian bird book [microform] : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds : also several hundred photographs of their nest and eggs. Oiseaux; Birds. it I H- â ' THE BIfiD BOOK Hi. Brandt's Cormorant. Phalacrocorax penicUUiiu$. Range.âPacific coast breeding along the whole coast of the United States. This species is found more abundantly on the Faral- lones than is the Farallone Cormorant. Like the other Cormorants breeding on these islands, these cling closely to their nests, for fear of being robbed by the OuUs, that are ever on the watch to steal either eggs or young. Their nesting iiabits and eggs are Identical with those of the other species. Size Data.âBird Island, California, May 24, 1885. A very bulky nest of seaweed on the rocks. Collector, A. M. Ingersoll. 123. Pelagic Cormorant. Phalacrocorax pel- agicus pelagicut. Ilange.âCoast of Alaska. These are perhaps the most beautiful species of Cor- morants, having brilliant violet green metallic reflec- tions and, in the breeding plumage, crests on the fore- head and nape, as well as large white flank patches. They breed in large colonies on the Aleutian Islands, placing their nests of sticks and sea mosses on the rocky ledges, often hundreds of feet above the sea level. Three 120câ122 '"' '*""' ^KK" '^^ '"'^ during May and June. The young birds' when hatched are naked and black, and are re- pulsive looking objects, as are those of all the other Cormorants. The eggs are greenish white with the usual calcareous deposit. Size x 123a. VioLET-OREEN CoRMORANT. Pkalocro- corax pelagicu* robutiut. This sub-species is found on the Pacific coast from Washington to the Aleu- tian Islands. Their habits and nests and eggs are the same as those of the Pelagic Cormorant, nesting on the high cliffs of the . ^ rocky islands. The eggs are the same size as those of f"""'"' the preceding. 123b. Bairo's Cormorant. agicut
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