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Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
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of the nostrils is completely obliterated,its place being filled by bony matter. The large branch of the 5th pair ofnerves passes in its usual direction to the anterior part of the upper mandible. THE FLORIDA CORMORANT. ^Phalacrocorax floridanus, Jiud. PLATE CCCCXVIL—Male. The Florida Cormorant seldom goes far out to sea, but prefers theneighbourhood of the shores, being found in the bays, inlets, and largerivers. I never met with one at a greater distance from land than fivemiles. It is at all seasons gregarious, although it is not always found inlarge flocks. The birds of this species never suffer others of the same genusto resort to their breeding places, although they sometimes associate withindividuals belonging to different genera. The P. Carbo appropriates toitself the upper shelves of the most rugged and elevated rocks, whose basesare washed by the sea; P. dilophus breeds on flat rocky islands at somedistance from the shores of the mainland; and the Florida Cormorant nestles
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■■ c CO a THE FLORIDA CORMORANT. 431 on trees. In the many breeding places of all these species which I havevisited, I never found individuals of one intermingled with those of another,although the Large Cormorant did not seem averse from having thePeregrine Falcon in its vicinity, while the Double-crested allowed a fewGannets or Guillemots to nestle beside it, and the Florida Cormorantassociated with Herons, Frigate Pelicans, Grakles, or Pigeons. This species seldom flies far over land, but follows the sinuosities of theshores or the waters of rivers, although its course towards a given pointshould thus be three times as long. It is the only one that, in as far as Ihave observed in America, alights on trees. My learned friend, the Princeof Musignano, mentions in his valuable Synopsis of the Birds of the UnitedStates, a species of Cormorant under the name of P. Graculus, which hedescribes as being when adult greenish-black, with a few scattered whitestreaks on the neck, in winter

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