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A common spring and fall migrant, and occasional winter resident. 

 Mr. H. W. Hand tells me that they arrive in the spring, from March 

 23d to April 21st, and sometimes linger until June 1st, and Mr. W. L. 

 Baih' saw a flock of one hundred off Sea Isle City May 23d. 1887, and 

 one August 30th, 1896, at Wildwood. At Atlantic City I saw one bird 

 as late as June 19th, 1892, and Mr. E. C. Harlow saw three at Beach 

 Haven June 11th, 1907. They return in September and October, and 

 Mr. I. N. DeHaven took several at Atlantic City February, 1895. 

 They usually migrate just off shore, but occasionally come in over the 

 bays and even up the rivers. Mr. S. N. Rhoads reports some seen on 

 the Delaware at Camden, and Mr. H. W. Fowler records two killed at 

 Burlington Island. Mr. Thurber states that one was shot at Littleton, 

 Morris county, October, 1880, but they are very rare inland. 



Family PELECANIDiE. 



The Pelicans, 



Like the other allied families, the Pelicans are fishing birds, and 

 are provided with a curious distensible sack hanging from the lower 

 mandible. The White Pelican scoops up its fish while swimming, but 

 the Brown Pelican secures his food by diving. 



125 Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin. 

 White Pelican. 



Adults. — Length, 55-70. Wing, 20-25. White with black primaries. 



A rare straggler in former years. 



Turnbull says that it has been seen at rare intervals on the Dela- 

 ware and on the sea coast near Cape May. and T. R. Peale^ records a 

 pair captured a few miles below Philadelphia on the Delaware. Dr. 

 C. C. Abbott refers to a mounted specimen said to have been killed 

 near Tuckerton. and says that he saw three of these birds flying off 

 Sandy Hook in February, 1864. 



' Water Birds of N. A., II., p. 137. 



