. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . —»*45 122. Brandts Cormorant. Phalacrocorax penicillatus. Range.—Pacific coast breeding along tlie whole coastof the United States. This species is found, more abundantly on the Faral-lones than is the Parallone Cormorant. Like the otherCormorants breeding on these islands, these cling closelyto their nests, for fear of being robbed by tlie Gulls, thatare ever on the watch to steal either eggs or nesting habits and eggs are identic
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . —»*45 122. Brandts Cormorant. Phalacrocorax penicillatus. Range.—Pacific coast breeding along tlie whole coastof the United States. This species is found, more abundantly on the Faral-lones than is the Parallone Cormorant. Like the otherCormorants breeding on these islands, these cling closelyto their nests, for fear of being robbed by tlie Gulls, thatare ever on the watch to steal either eggs or nesting habits and eggs are identical with those ofthe other species. Size x Data.—Bird Island,California, May 24, 1885. A very bulky nest of seaweedon the rocks. Collector, A. M. Ingersoll. Pelagic CoRiioRANT. Phalacrocorax pel-agicus —Coast of Alaska. Tliese are perliaps 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 breed in large colonies on the Aleutian Islands,placing their nests
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