CLASS AVES 



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Procellaria pelagica (Fig. 489), is known from the Atlantic and 

 Mediterranean coasts of Europe, Africa, and North America. 



Fig. 480. — Stormy Petrel, Procellaria pelagica. (From Evans.) 



Order 13. Ciconiiformes. — Stork-like Birds. — This order 

 includes the tropic birds, cormorants, anhingas, pelicans, gan- 

 nets, man-o'-war birds, herons, bitterns, boatbills, shoebills, 

 hammerheads, storks, ibises, spoonbills, and flamingos. Most 

 of these birds have 

 long legs, long, 

 slender necks, 

 elongated bills, 

 and feet fitted for 

 wading or swim- 

 ming. 



The pelicans 

 (Family Pele- 

 canid^e) possess 

 a huge membran- 

 ous pouch between 

 the branches of the 



lower jaw, with which they scoop up small fish (Fig. 507, g). 

 The cormorants (Family Phalacrocoracid^e) comprise the 



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Fig. 490. — Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo. 

 (From Evans.) 



