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Birds of ^'ohiu C'aki 



strokes. The secoml hinl follows the exainple, and the movement is gradually 

 imitated along the colunm. By the time the rear bird has received tlic impulse the 

 leader is generally sailing again near the surface. The luidulating motion given to 

 a long line of Pelicans hy these movements ])resents a spectacle which at a distance 

 suggests a brown sea-serpent disporting itself along the crests of tiic waves. 



As breeding-l)irds, Brown Pelicans are not known north of Cape Komain, South 

 Carolina. Of recent years hundreds regularly j^ass the sununiT in the neighbor- 

 hood of the small sandy islands lying in Pamlico Sound between Ocracoke and 

 Cape Hatteras, and they occur scatteringly on the sounds from there to the South 

 Carolina line. 



i'Ki. .'il. Mano'wak lill.D. 



12. FAMILY FREGATID/E. MAN-O-WAR BIRDS 



Genus Fregata iLacep.) 

 38. Fregata aquila [Linn.). Max-o'-wak Biuu. 



Ad. (f. — Entire pluniago l)laok, more glossy iibove; dilatable gular pouch in breeding seu-son 

 orange-red or earmine. 9. — Similar, but Ijrowner; le.sser wing-covert.s grayisli brown; brea.'it 

 and upper l)ellv white. Im. — Similar to the 9, but whole head and neek wliitc. I.., 40.00; 

 W., 2,-).()0; T., "17.00; H., 4..50. (Chap., liinU of E. S. A.) 



Range. — Tropieal and sulitropieal eoasts. 



Range in Nuiih Carolimi. — Oecasional off shore in coastal region. 



