. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Farallon Cormorant Authorities.—Gambel (Carbo dilophus), Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ser. 2, i., 1849, p. 227 (Calif.); Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. ii., 1884, p. 94 {Phala- crocorax dilophus albociliatus, new subspecies; type locality, Farallon Ids.); Ray, Auk, vol. xxi., 1904, p. 436, pi. (Farallon Id., breeding; habits); Grinnell, Condor, vol. x., 1908, p. 185, figs. (Salton Sea; desc. of breeding colony); Howell, Pac. Coast Avi-
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Farallon Cormorant Authorities.—Gambel (Carbo dilophus), Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ser. 2, i., 1849, p. 227 (Calif.); Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. ii., 1884, p. 94 {Phala- crocorax dilophus albociliatus, new subspecies; type locality, Farallon Ids.); Ray, Auk, vol. xxi., 1904, p. 436, pi. (Farallon Id., breeding; habits); Grinnell, Condor, vol. x., 1908, p. 185, figs. (Salton Sea; desc. of breeding colony); Howell, Pac. Coast Avi- fauna, no. 12, 1917, p. 37 (s. Calif. Ids.). LANDSMEN are slow to realize the fertility of the sea. Its great expanse is so little broken at the surface by the irruption of life that we cannot easily comprehend the vast and varied resources either of its depths or of its teeming shallows. The Gulls, the Gooneys, and the Alan- o'-war-birds serve to heighten this superficial impression which we get of ocean's scanty fare, for we find them traveling a league for a bite, and a day's journey for a full meal. Not so, however, with the Cormorant. Here is a bird, the very symbol of voracity, built to seize and swallow and speedily digest. When we see him and know his ways, we realize the long- suffering of the great mother, and the boundless provision she has made for her hungry children. Cormorants of more than forty species range. Taken on the Southeast Farallon Pholo by the A ulhor THE TYPE COLONY IT WAS FROM SPECIMENS TAKEN IN THIS ROOKERY THAT THE RACE, albociliatus, WAS DESCRIBED BY RIDGWAY 1938. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dawson, William Leon, 1873-1928; Dickey, Donald R. (Donald Ryder), 1887-1932; Pierce, Wright M; Finley, William L. (William Lovell), 1876-1953; Brooks, Allan, 1869-194
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