xliv. 



Whole head and neck white, grayish 01 rusty. 



Primaries black, res! of plumage white. 



a. Wing more than 17.00. 



b. Wing 17.00 or less. 

 Back grayish brown. 



a. Wings without conspicuous white. 



b. Wings with conspicuous white. 

 1 . 1 I . Wing' more than 17.00. 

 (2). Wing 17.00 or less. 



276. Greater Snow Goose. 

 275. Lesser Snow Goose. 



277. Blue Goose. 



276. Greater Snow Goose. 

 275. Lesser Snow Goose. 



IV. Head and neck browi 



A. Rump fuscous. 



B. Rump gray. 



bill yellov 



Subfamily 5. Cv< 



278. American White=fronted Goose. 

 277. Blue Goose. 1 im. 1 



AE. 



M'al form of the swans is too well known to call for comment here. The long neck 

 to feed upon the bottom of shallow pools without tipping up in the undignified man- 

 ;eese. The} migrate in flocks much titter the manner of the gee e, and seem to feed 

 table matter and aquatic insects. 



273. Whistling Swan 



274. Trumpeter Swan. 



Order 14. STEGANOPODES. Pelicans, Cormorants, etc. 



Family 



FregatidaE. Man=o'=War Birds. 



The single member of this family which ha, 



denial visitor, not likely to be found again. 



Family 2. PelEc 



id 111 Ohio mils', lie regal "ded 

 312. Man=o'=War Bird. 



Peli 



The American White Peli 

 known at once by its great si 

 of the bill. Ii 1- found onlj 

 it must feed. 



Family 3. Phalacrocoracidai 



311. A 

 Cormorants 



imilj in Ohio. It may be 

 11 e;ng from the lower side 

 \ 1 vicinity of them, where 

 can White Pelican. 



There appears to b 

 of the only specimen . 



to verify the sup iti, 



were form floridanus. 

 them by the hoarse en 



b xammatii in 

 a form, fails 

 nj years ag 

 guished from 



vhile thing, but may 1 

 wax dilophus. 



310. Double=crested Cormorant. 



Order 16. PYGOPODES. Diving Birds. 

 Family r. Podicipidae. Grebes. 



di 111 be seen anywhere except in the water, where they are perfectly at home. 

 Stinguished from all other swimming birds by the absence of a tail. When 

 ey swim with 1110,: or all of the body beneath the water, and if hard pressed 

 bill far enough to breathe. Witch-like escapes may often he attributed to 



thlS power. 



I. Large, over iS inches long. 



II. Smaller, less than 16 inches long. 



A. Bill slender, less than a third as deep at base 



B. Bill about half as deep as base as long. 



rlolboell Grebe. 



ig.315. Horned Grebe. 

 316. Pied-billed (irebe. 



All of the Loons wh 



Family 

 t Ohio a 



Gaviidae. Loons. 



large birds, seldom visiting 

 les in habits, eating much tl 



have given them their nam 

 an old flint-lock or percusi 



:s of water in 

 itic life. Their 

 ickness in div- 

 n. but modern 



