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White Pelican, 



Genus PELECANUS Linn. 



34. Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmel. 

 American White Pelican. 



Distr.: Temperate North America, north in the interior to about 

 latitude 6i°, breeding chiefly from about the latitude of Minnesota 

 northward; south in w^inter to Mexico and Central America. It is 

 still abundant in many parts of the interior and along the Gulf coast 

 to Florida and on the coast of California; very rare on the Atlantic 

 ?oast north of Florida. 



Adult in breeding plumage: General plumage, white; bill, yellow- 

 ish, with horny protuberance on the top (this is lacking in winter); 

 primaries, black; pouch is lemon yellow and the legs, pale yellow; 

 iris, straw color. 



Length, 60; wing, 24.50; tarsus, 4.45; bill, 12. 



