PHA LA CROCORA CIDJ^ : CORMORANTS. 



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€utly ou the ground or ou bushes and h)\v trees. Eggs 2-3 cununuuly, white, chalky, elliptical, 

 3.00 X 2.00. (P. onocrotalus, ^ occidentalis Linn. 1766, in part; P. fuscus Gm. 1788.) 

 P. califor'nicus. (Lat. of California.) Californian Brown Pelican. Similar to the 

 last; larger; length 4.50 feet or more; wing 21.00-23.00 inches; bill 12.00-15.00. In full 

 breeding plumage the j)t>uch more or less reddisli, the bare skin about the eyes brownish, the 



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i,L. A. Fuertes.) 



•chestnut of the neck very dark or brownisli-black. Pacific coast of America, from southern 

 British Columbia soutluvard to the Gahipagos; an abundant and conspicuous bird on the 

 coast of California. The difference from P. fuscus is not great, but as the habitats of tlie two 

 forms are apart, in North America at least, intergrachition does not occur, and the peculiarities 

 of the West coast bird may therefore be regarded as specific. Hist. N. A. Water Birds, ii, 

 1884, p. 143; A. 0. U. List, 1886, p. 112, No. 127; Key, 3d ed. 1887, p. 891. 



Family PHALACROCORACID^ : Cormorants. 



Bill about as loug as head, stout or slender, more or h?ss nearly terete, strongly epig- 

 nathous or hooked at end: tomia generally irregularly jagged, but not truly serrate; a long, 



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Fio. C72. — Skull of Phnlncrnrnrnr hirri.ilnliis, showing at. o. occipital style or nuchal bone ; nat. size. (From nature 

 by Dr. H. W. Shufeldt. The style is somewhat tilted upward from its natural position.) 



narrow, nasal groove, but nostrils obliterated in adult state; gape reaching below eyes, which 

 are stt in naked skin. Gnlar pouch small, but forming an evident naked space under bill and 

 on thmat, variously encroaclied upon by feathers. Wimis short for the order, stiff and strong; 

 2d primary usually longer than 3d; both these e.vceediug 1st. Tail rather long, largo, more 



