PELECANID^E: Pelicans 



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PHALACROCORACID^E (Family Cormorants): Body long; neck 

 slender; bill slender, strongly hooked; legs far back, very muscular; 

 powerful divers and swimmers, and equally strong fliers. Plumage dense 

 and oily. Face and chin naked, forming a sac or gular pouch capable of 

 great distension. PELECANID^E (Family Pelicans) : Large, heavy- 

 bodied birds, best characterized by the long bill and great pouch. Opening 

 the bill bends the lower mandible into a hoop to the edges of which the 

 pouch is attached, the whole forming an efficient scoop net for catching 

 small fish in quantity. 



Res., on alton Sea Other- 

 wise, W.V., Oct.-Apr., inland 

 lakes and larger streams of our 

 area. Occasional on tide-bays 

 of the California coast. Com- 

 mon; locally abundant. In 

 migration flies in long lines 

 containing scores or hundreds 

 of birds. 



California coast and islands, 

 and southward Res. Nests 

 in colonies, sometimes of thou- 

 sands on islands. Strictly a salt- 

 water bird. Flies in flocks of 

 any size, usually a half-dozen to 

 twenty. Generally fishes singly. 



