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Bfiounled specimen said to have been killed near Tuckerton, N. J.,* 

 •and states that he saw three of these birds flying off Sandy Hook in 

 Pebruary, 1864. Pealef also records the capture of a pair many 

 years ago on the Delaware, a few miles below Philadelphia. 



\[42.'] Pelecanns fusctis J^i^^. Brown Pelican. 



Breeding Range — Atlantic coasts of Tropical America, to N. Carolina. 

 Winter Distribution — Tropical America. 



Turnbull records one specimen shot off Sandy Hook in 1837, in 

 summer. 



Family Anatidse — The Ducks and Geese. 



Thirty-seven species of this family have been taken in eastern 

 Pennsylvania and New Jersey. With the exception of the Wood 

 Duck and Black Duck, they all occur in our district as winter visi- 

 tants or transients, and as they habitually frequent the shores of 

 large bodies of water during the winter months, the only localities at 

 w^hich they occur in numbers are on the coast of New Jersey and on 

 the lower parts of the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers, which form 

 the heads respectively of Delaware and Chesapeake bays. 



On the New Jersey coast ducks have become very scarce of late 

 years as compared with the numbers which were formerly found 

 there, and most of the migrant flocks now pass on to the Virginian 

 coast and bays to spend the winter. 



Of the New Jersey coast ducks, the Black Duck is the most 

 abundant, and after it the Scaup Ducks. The other species which oc- 

 cur are the Bufflehead, Widgeon, Teal, Pintail, Redhead, IMallard, 

 Gohlen-eye, American and Red-breasted Mergansers and Canada 

 Goose, while off the coast the true sea-loving species are plentiful, 

 i. e., the Brant, Old-squaw and three Scoters. 



The species given above comprise the bulk of the Ducks found on 

 the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, but the Scaup Ducks are here 



* Jillson Brothers, reliable taxidermists, who have lived all their lives at 

 'Tuckerton, never heard of Pelicans being seen there. 



f See Water Birds of North America, Vol. II., 137. 



