294 NEW- YORK FAUNA BIRDS. 



(EXTRA-LIMITAL.) 



P. brasiliensis , Bonap. (P. Jloridanus, Aud. B. of A. Vol. 6, p. 430, pL 417.) Black: neck and 

 all beneath glossy green ; gular sac bright orange ; bill black above, blue beneath. Tail wedge- 

 shaped, with acutely pointed feathers. Length, 29*0. Mississippi and Florida southwardly. 



P. townsendi. (Atjd. 1. c p. 438, pi. 418.) Greenish black above; sides of the head and beneath 

 yellowish brown ; bill yellow ; gular sac orange : a few white hair-like feathers on the sides of the 

 neck and body. Length, 35 • 0. Columbia river. 



P. resplendent. (Aud. lb. p. 440, pi. 419.) Bright glossy violet green. Quill and tail-feathers 

 brownish black, and less glossy. Length, 27-0. An var. praeced.? Columbia river. 



GENUS PELECANUS. 



Bill very long, broad, straight, much depressed. Lower mandible formed of two branches, 

 supporting a naked membrane, dilated into a large pouch. Nostrils scarcely visible. Face 

 and cheeks naked. Tibia naked below. Tail rounded, of twenty or twenty-four feathers. 



THE BROWN PELICAN. 



Pelecantjs FUSCTT8. 



PLATE CI. FIG. 226. 



Pelecanus fuscus, Lin. Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y. Vol.2, p. 401. Nottall, Man. Om.. Vol. 2, p. 476. 

 Audubon, B. of Am. Vol. 7, p. 32, pL 423 and 424. 



Characteristics. Middle nail serrated internally. Primaries black ; shafts white ; first 

 and fifth equal. Adult, blackish ash ; back and wings hoary ; crown 

 yellowish ; neck deep chesnut, margined on each side with white. 

 Young, wholly brownish. Length, 54 "0. 



Description. Bill straight, depressed towards the end, 13*5 long. Naked part of the 

 tibia with small scales. Tail rounded, and of twenty-two feathers. 



Color. Whitish, and varied with brown and reddish. Space between the bill and eye 

 blue. The hair-like feathers on the crown yellow. Back and sides of the neck deep chesnut 

 brown, meeting in front on the lower part of the neck. Upper part of the neck white. 

 General color of the remaining parts of the body dusky brown, streaked with white. Young, 

 uniform dusky ; bill and feet bluish. 



Length, 52-0-54'0. 



The Brown Pelican is only an occasional visitor to the coast of this Slate. One was shot 

 six years since off Sandyhook. Its range is from North-Carolina southwardly. The Great 

 White Pelican (P. trachyrhyncus) was formerly numerous on the Hudson, and other rivers 

 and lakes of this State. At the present day it has entirely disappeared, and I do not know 

 of its existence here even as an accidental visitor. 



