. The birds of eastern North America known to occur east of the nineteenth meridian .. . FAMILY PHALACROCORACID^. Cormorants. Bill, hooked at tip, and less than twelve inches long;bare skin at base of bill and chin ; lores, bare ; toes, four,all connected by Group 1. Wing, 11 to 15 inches long. Tail eompof^ed of fourteen feathers. Fhalacrocoraxcarbo. Common Cormorant. Shag. See No. 79. Tail composed of twelve feathers. Phalarrocnrax diloplius^ and rnrrs. Double=crested Cormorant and Florida Cormorant. See Nos. 80 and 81 The Mexican Cormorant, a smaller species, occasionally occurs in tl


. The birds of eastern North America known to occur east of the nineteenth meridian .. . FAMILY PHALACROCORACID^. Cormorants. Bill, hooked at tip, and less than twelve inches long;bare skin at base of bill and chin ; lores, bare ; toes, four,all connected by Group 1. Wing, 11 to 15 inches long. Tail eompof^ed of fourteen feathers. Fhalacrocoraxcarbo. Common Cormorant. Shag. See No. 79. Tail composed of twelve feathers. Phalarrocnrax diloplius^ and rnrrs. Double=crested Cormorant and Florida Cormorant. See Nos. 80 and 81 The Mexican Cormorant, a smaller species, occasionally occurs in tlu; Mississippi ^allej. * For directions for measiirenient, see page 9. FA:MILY niALACROCORAClDiE. COKMOKANTS. 55


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