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KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 



PELECANU5 FUSCU5 //////. 

 Brown Pelican. 



Adult in breeding phunage : Neck chestnut brown; head and Hne at the base of the pouch 

 yellowish white; upper parts ashy gray, some of the feathers edged with brownish. Bill 

 brownish white marked with red in spots : pouch dark greenish black : bare space in front of 

 the eye bluish ; tail consists of twenty-two feathers. The immature bird has the head and neck 

 brownish gray. 



Length, 50 ; Wing, 20; Tarsus, 2.90; Bill, 11. 



This species is abundant in Florida, breeding in numbers in some locali- 

 ties. The efo-s are three to five, of a bluish white color, covered with a 

 chalk}- deposit. 



Habitat: ''Atlantic coast of tropical and sub-tropical America, north on 

 the x\tlantic coast to North Carolina: accidental in Illinois." (a.o.u.) 



