PELECANID.E — THE PELICANS — PELECANUS. 



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Pelecanus erythrorhjmchos. 



THE AHESICAN WHITE PELICAN. 



Pelccamts erythrorhynchos, Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 671. — lUiun, II. N. Am. 1858, 868; I at. N. 



Am. B. 1859, no. 615. —Elliot, P. Z. S. 1869, 588 (monographic). 

 Pelecanus trachyrhyiichvs, Lath. Ind. Oin. II. 1790, 884 (bused on Kough-billcd Pelican, Synop. VI. 



1790, 586). — CuuES, Key, 1872, 300 ; Clieck List, 1873, no. 526 ; 2d ed. 1882, no. 748 ; B. N. 



\V. 1874, 586 (synonomy). 

 Pelecanus mwcrotalus ("A vuiiety"), Fokstek, Pliilos. Trans. LXII. 1772, 419. 

 Pelecanus thayus (nee MoL.), Siephe.ns, Uen. Zool. XIII. 1826, 117 (Mexico). 

 Pelecanus onocrotalus, Bonai'. Synop. 1828, 400 (not of Linn.). — Sw. & KicH. F. B. A. IL 1831, 



472. — NuTT. Man. II. 1834, 471. 

 Pelecanus Hcrnandezii, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 1233 (Mexico). 

 Pelecanus amcricanus, AuD. Oni. Biog. IV. 1838, 88, pi. 311 ; Synop. 1839, 309 ; B. Am. VII. 1844, 



20, pi. 422. 

 Peleainiw occipitalis, Ridgw. Am. Sportsman, IV. 1874, 297 (Nevada). 



IIab. Temperate North America, north in the interior to about lat. 61°, eouth to Central 

 America ; rare or casual in the North Atlantic States, abundant in the Middle Province and along 

 thi! Gull' coast. 



Sf. Char. Tail-feathers, 24. Malar region completely feathered ; color chiefly white ; bill, 

 pouch, and feet light-yellowish or reddish. Adult, in full breeding-plumage : Culmen with a 



P. erythrorhynchos. 



narrow median homy excrescence, situated a little anterior to the middle of the culmen, the 

 upper outline more or less convex, the fibres vertical, the size and exact shape variable. Plu- 

 mage white, sometimes tinged with pale pinkish, the narrow lesser wing-coverts and jugular 

 plumes straw yellow or (rarely) jiurplish buff ; primaries dull black, their shafts white toward the 

 base ; secondaries dusky, edged botli externally and internally with ashy-white. Upper part of 

 tlie nape with a pendant crest of long, narrow, silky, pure white or pale straw-colored feathers. 



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