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pelican feeding its young with its own blood drawn from its 

 breast, the red tip of the beak having a blood like look against 

 the white feathers. 



Fig. 6 shows the bird with the mouth half open, and Figs. 

 7, 8, 9 are ordinary attitudes. 



The reader will see that the pouch is scarcely sho\sTi at all 

 in these figures, the whole of which were sketched from the 



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living birds. The colour of the pelican is white with a delicate 

 rosy tinge. 



