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strokes. The second bird follows the example, and the movement is gradually 

 imitated along the column. By the time the rear bird has received the impulse the 

 leader is generally sailing again near the surface. The undulating motion given to 

 a long line of Pelicans by these movements presents a spectacle which at a distance 

 suggests a brown sea-serpent disporting itself along the crests of the waves. 



As breeding-birds, Brown Pelicans are not known north of Cape Romain, South 

 Carolina. Of recent years hundreds regularly pass the summer in the neighbor- 

 hood of the small sandy islands lying in Pamlico Sound between Ocracoke and 

 Cape Hatteras, and they occur scatteringly on the sounds from there to the South 

 Carolina line. 



FIG. 31. MAN-O'-WAE BIRD. 



12. FAMILY FREGAT1D>. MAN-O'-WAR BIRDS 



Genus Fregata (Lacep.) 

 38. Fregata aquila (Linn.). MAN-O'-WAR BIRD. 



Ad. cf. Entire plumage black, more glossy above; dilatable gular pouch in breeding season 

 orange-red or carmine. 9 . Similar, but browner; lesser wing-coverts grayish brown; breast 

 and upper belly white. Im. Similar to the 9, but whole head and neck white. L., 40.00; 

 W., 25.00; T., 17.00; B., 4.50. (Chap., Birds of E. N. A.) 



Range. Tropical and subtropical coasts. 



Range in North Carolina. -Occasional off shore in coastal region. 



