. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 79. l^^aUer Raini^ NESTS OF DOUBLE-CRTQSTKD CORlMO HANTS SO TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS 120a. Florida Cormorant. Phalacrocorax auritus floridanus. This sub-species is a common breeding bird in tlie swamps and islands of tlieGulf coast and nortli to South Carolina and southern Illinois. The nests areplaced in the mangroves in some of tlie most impenetrable swamps and arecomposed of twigs and lined with leaves or moss. Tliey lay three or four chalKyblu
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 79. l^^aUer Raini^ NESTS OF DOUBLE-CRTQSTKD CORlMO HANTS SO TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS 120a. Florida Cormorant. Phalacrocorax auritus floridanus. This sub-species is a common breeding bird in tlie swamps and islands of tlieGulf coast and nortli to South Carolina and southern Illinois. The nests areplaced in the mangroves in some of tlie most impenetrable swamps and arecomposed of twigs and lined with leaves or moss. Tliey lay three or four chalKybluisli wliite eggs. Size x 1,40. Data.—Bird Is., Lake Kissimee, Florida,April 5, 1S9S. Three eggs. Nest made of weeds and grass, in a willow busli. 120b. White-crested Cormorant. Phdlacrocorai- auritus ciiicinatus. Range.—Northwestern coast of Nortli America, breeding in Alaska, and southto the northern boundary of the United States, breeding both in the interiorand on the coast, in the former case generally on the ground or in low treeson swampy islands and in the latter, on the rocky cliffs of the coasts andislands. Tlie nests are built in t
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