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but throat, forcneck, jiigulmn ami breast umch lighter colored, sornetiiues al- 

 most white.'' 



stretch 0/ 

 Length. wing. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill. 



Male 28.50 42.50 10.40 7.25 l.SO 1.90 



Female... o8.50 41.00 10.00 0.50 1.75 1.80 



I have three of the birds in the Goss Ornithological Collec- 

 tion, taken in the early spring of 1881, at the mouth of the 

 Nueces Kiver, Texas. They appeared to be quite common, were 

 mating, and, from actions, without doubt upon their breeding 

 grounds. I also noticed a few of the birds in the winter of 

 1886, on the Chocon River, Guatemala, but cannot recall (with 

 certainty) meeting with them elsewhere in Central America. 

 In habits the birds are similar to the Double-crested. 



Their nests are rudely constructed of sticks, leaves, etc., and 

 placed on bushes or trees, over or near the water. A set of 

 two eggs, taken the latter part of May, 1883, from a tree on the 

 banks of the Colorado River (near its mouth), Texas, are, in di- 

 mensions, 1.72x1.24, 1.74x1.28; bluish white, with a slight 

 chalky deposit; in form, elongate ovate. 



Family PELECANIDJE. Pelicans. 



"Bill greatlj^ elongated and excessively depressed, the terminal iuigiu.s very 

 prominent and strongly hooked: gular pouch exceedingly large and greatly dis- 

 tensible; lores and orbital region — sometimes other parts of the head also — 

 naked. Toes fully webbed, the outer almost as long as the middle, the inner 

 much shorter. Tail very short, nearly even or slightly rounded. Size usually 

 very large." 



Genus PELECANUS Linnaeus. 



"Characters same as those of the family." 



Subgenus CYETOPELICAlsrUS Reichenbach. 



Tail feathers, 24; lower jaw densely feathered; color white, with blackish 

 remiges. {Ridgway. ) 



Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmel. 



AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN. 

 PLATE III. 



Migratory; quite common. Arrive the first of April to first 

 of May; return early in September. 



B. (515. R. 640. C. 748. (J. 30.3. 18. U. 125. 



