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ANHIN^AS. 



dom any white feathers over eye. South Atlantic and Gulf 

 States, breeding chiefly along the coast in April, wandering 

 up the Mississippi Ya-ley to southern 111 ; common. 



4. MEXICAN CORMORANT, P. mexicanus. 26.00-, 

 brownish-black ; slaty on back where the border of each 

 feather is black ; line adjoining gula sac, white ; naked space 

 about the face, brownish ; in breeding birds there are short, 

 scattering, filamentous, white feathers on top of head. Young 

 grayish-brown, lighter beneath, sometimes white on throat 

 near gula sac and on lower tail coverts. Breeds in Mexico, 

 Texas and Cuba, wandering along Fig. 35. 



the Gulf and up the Mississippi 

 Valley to southern 111. ; common. 



E. ANHINGAS. Anhin- 

 gidae. 



Rather large but slender birds 

 that occur chiefly on inland wa- 

 ters; sexes, unlike; males, nearly 

 black ; females, more or less brown; 

 bill, slender, small ; space in front 

 of eye, naked ; gula sac, small ; 

 neck, long and slender with a pe- 

 culiar arrangment of joints near 

 the middle whereby it may be part- 

 ly withdrawn within its skin which |w 

 is very dilatable ; tail, long, round- M 

 ed and fan-like, central feathers, 

 corrugated transversely ; toes, ful- 

 ly webbed ; external nostrils, ab- 

 sent, fig. 35. Nests of sticks and 

 weeds placed on trees or bushes ; 

 eggs, 2 to 5, much as in D ; young, 

 covered with short, yellowish 

 down. Flight, steady and diiect; 

 wing-beats, rapid, but the birds 

 often soar at a considerable height 

 much as do the White Pelicans. 



E, E, al. 



