ZOOLOGY. 2G5 



LOPHODYTES CUCULLATUS, (Linn.) Reich. 



Hooded Merganser. 



Mergus cuculUlus, Linn. Syst, Nat. 1, 1760, 207.— Gmelix, I, 544.— Wilson, Am. Ora. Till, 79; pi. Lxi.x:.— Bon. Obs. 



No. 251.— Sw. F.Bor. Am. II, 1831,463 Ndttali, Man. II, 465.— Ann. Orn. Biog. Ill, 1835, 



246: V. 619; pi. 233.— Ib. Syn. 299.— Ib. Birds Amer. YI, 1843, 402; pi. 413. 



Lophodyles cucuUatus, Keich, Systema Avium, 1852, p. 'vs.. — Bonap. Comptes Reodus, XLIII, 1856. — Baikd, Gen. 

 Rep. Birds, 816. 



Sp. Ch — Head with an elongated, compressed, semicircular crest. Anterior extremity of nostrils reaching not quite as 

 far as the middle of commissure. Frontal feathers extending nearly as far as half the distance from lateral feathers to 

 nostril; the latter much beyond the feathers on side of lower mandible. Bill shorter than head. 



Male. — Bill black. Head, neck, and back, black; under parts and centre of crest white. Sides chestnut brown, barred 

 with black. 'White anterior to the wing, crossed by two black crescents. Lesser coverts gray; white speculum with a basal 

 and median black bar; black tertials streaked centrally with white. 



Female -nith a shorter and more pointed crest. Tlie head and neck reddish brown; the back without pure black; the sides 

 without transverse bars; the white of wings less extended. 



Length, 17.50; wing, 7.90; tarsus, 1.20; commissure, 1.98. 



Hah. — Whole of North America. 



Tlie beautiful hooded merganser is extremely common in winter on the fresh water lakes 

 near Fort Steilacoom, where I obtained several fine specimens of both sexes. They also breed 

 sparingl}^ in the neighborhood. 



In the summer of 1856 I shot one out of a brood of half-grown j'oung, which were being 

 reared on a small sluggish stream near the garrison garden. Being but slightly wounded, it 

 showed great dexterity in swimming, diving, and hiding, and other spirited endeavors to escape. 

 The rest of the brood, being unharmed, took to the shore and managed most successfully to 

 hide in the long grass near the water. The individual shot was about two-thirds grown, and 

 seemed to be in color an exact miniature of the adult female. — S. 



The hooded merganser is often shot in winter, but I never saw it during summer in the 

 Territory'. — C. 



Family PELECANIDAE The Pelicans- 



PELECANUS ERYTHRORHYNCHUS, Gmelin. 



Bougb-blUed or \V1ilte Fellcan. 



Pelecanus erythrorhynchus, Gm. Syst. Nat. 1788, 571.— Baikd and Lawkenob, Gen. Eep. Birds, p. 868. 



Pelecanus trachyrhynchus, Lath. Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 884.— Bon. Comp. List, 1838, 60.— Gray, Gen. of Birds, 1845, 309. 



OyiTopelicanus traehyrhynchus, BoN. Cons. Av. II, 1855, 163. 



PfUcanus mocrotalm, Bon. Syn. 1828, No. 351.— Rich, and Sw. F. Bor. Am. 11, 1831, 472.— Nutt. Man. H, 1834, 471. 



Pelecanus amerkanus, Ann. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838, 88.— Ib. Syn. 1839.— Ib. Birds Am. VII, 1844, 20 ; pi. ccccxxii. 

 Sp. Ch.— Head with a yellow occipital crest ; bill yellow, sub-maxillary pouch very large ; general color white ; primaries 

 black, second the longest ; legs and feet very strong. 



Adult male.— The general plumage is pure white; in the breeding season, with a roseate tinge ; the crest and elongated 

 feathers on the breast pale yellow ; the alula, primary coverts, and primaries black, the shafts of the latter white for the 

 greater part of their length, being brownish black at the end ; the outer secondaries black, the inner more or less white, the 

 shafts of all white underneath. Bill yellow, with the edges and unguis reddish ; upper mandible high at the base, but 

 becoming gradually flattened to the end ; on the ridge just beyond the middle of the bill is a thin elevated bony process 

 about one inch high, and extending towards the end for three or four inches ; lower mandible broad at the base, with the 

 crura separated nearly to the point ; underneath the lower mandible, beginning at the junction of the crura, and extending 

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