32 STEGANOPODES : Totipalmate Swimmers 



STEGANOPODES have toes fully webbed, that is, webs 

 connecting all the toes. This character alone separates the 

 Order from all others (compare other swimmers); strictly 

 aquatic, some forms being exclusively marine; adapted in 

 different ways for catching the fish on which they feed. They 

 are found in every part of the world, the Cormorants being 

 especially widely distributed. A total of about seventy-five 

 living species are known and half as many fossil forms. 



WHITE PELICAN 



(125. Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) 5 feet. 



Adults: White, with yellow wash on head and breast, and 

 black primaries. The peculiar growth on the bill is worn only 

 during the breeding season. 



Immatures: More or less gray-mixed, and brownish on crown 

 and nape. 



Lives entirely on fish, which it catches while sitting on the 

 water, not by plunging from the air, as does the California 

 Pelican. 



CALIFORNIA BROWN PELICAN 



(127. Pelecanus californicus) 4-5 feet. 



Mantle silvery gray; under parts iron gray; head light straw- 

 color; white stripe on sides of neck; back of neck rich, dark 

 brown, which in winter is replaced by white. Bill 13-15 inches 

 long. 



Young: Gray-brown above; white below. 



Feeds exclusively on fish, plunging from a height of 10-20 

 feet and scooping them in its great pouch and often robbed 

 by Gulls before it can get rid of the water taken in. 



FAMILY MAN-O'-WAR BIRDS. Fregatidaj. 



MAN-O'-WAR BIRD See Appendix. 



(128. Fregata aquila) 3* feet. 



