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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  winter: 
  No 
  crest 
  or 
  horn. 
  Bill, 
  pouch, 
  eyelids 
  and 
  feet 
  yellow, 
  nearly 
  red 
  

   in 
  the 
  breeding 
  season; 
  iris 
  white. 
  Young: 
  Brownish 
  on 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  

   head, 
  otherwise 
  white. 
  

  

  The 
  White 
  pelican 
  is 
  a 
  rare 
  straggler 
  on 
  the 
  waters 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  State. 
  

  

  In 
  colonial 
  days 
  it 
  was 
  more 
  common 
  according 
  to 
  reports, 
  but 
  now, 
  like 
  

  

  the 
  cranes 
  and 
  swans, 
  it 
  confines 
  its 
  migrations 
  mostly 
  to 
  the 
  Mississippi 
  

  

  valley 
  and 
  western 
  America. 
  Eleven 
  specimens 
  have 
  been 
  recorded 
  from 
  

  

  this 
  State: 
  

  

  Saratoga 
  lake, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Nov. 
  1788. 
  Munsell, 
  Annals 
  of 
  Albany, 
  i: 
  275 
  

  

  Canarsie 
  ba}^ 
  L. 
  I. 
  L. 
  I. 
  Hist. 
  See. 
  Col. 
  Dutcher, 
  Auk, 
  10: 
  270 
  

  

  Chautauqua 
  lake, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  About 
  i860. 
  A. 
  C. 
  Kibbe 
  

  

  Lake 
  Champlain, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Oct. 
  15, 
  1862. 
  F. 
  T. 
  Pember 
  

  

  Cayuga 
  lake, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Spring 
  1864. 
  (2). 
  Beal, 
  Am. 
  Nat. 
  i: 
  323 
  

  

  Roslyn, 
  L. 
  I. 
  May 
  11, 
  1885. 
  S. 
  H. 
  West, 
  Forest 
  and 
  Stream, 
  24: 
  328 
  

  

  Cayuga, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Early 
  fall 
  1888. 
  (Foster 
  Parker) 
  N. 
  Y. 
  State 
  collection 
  

  

  Geneva, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  May 
  10, 
  1892. 
  Seen 
  by 
  Truman 
  R. 
  Taylor 
  

  

  Onondaga 
  lake, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  Fall 
  1893. 
  W. 
  M. 
  Beauchamp 
  of 
  Baldwinsville, 
  X. 
  Y. 
  

  

  Buffalo, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  Niagara 
  river. 
  Oct. 
  5, 
  1894. 
  Savage, 
  Auk, 
  12: 
  313 
  

  

  Pelecanus 
  fuscus 
  Linnaeus 
  

  

  Brown 
  Pelican 
  

  

  Pelecanus 
  fuscus 
  Linnaeus. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  Ed. 
  12. 
  1766. 
  1:215 
  

   Pelecanus 
  fuscus 
  DeKav. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  294, 
  fig. 
  226 
  

  

  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  126 
  

  

  jiis'cus, 
  Lat., 
  dusky 
  

  

  Description. 
  Upper 
  parts 
  silvery 
  gray, 
  bordered 
  on 
  back 
  and 
  sides 
  

   with 
  brownish 
  black; 
  primaries 
  black; 
  under 
  parts 
  blackish, 
  streaked 
  with 
  

   white; 
  crown 
  and 
  breast 
  spots 
  straw-yellow; 
  back 
  of 
  head 
  and 
  neck 
  and 
  

   spot 
  on 
  the 
  f 
  oreneck 
  seal-brown 
  ; 
  a 
  white 
  line 
  down 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  breast 
  ; 
  

   the 
  pouch 
  and 
  feet 
  blackish; 
  eye 
  space 
  blue; 
  eyelids 
  red; 
  iris 
  white; 
  bill 
  

   mottled. 
  Ajter 
  the 
  breeding 
  season: 
  Neck 
  and 
  hind 
  head 
  white, 
  tinged 
  

   with 
  yellow; 
  young 
  similar, 
  but 
  the 
  plumage 
  much 
  duller. 
  

  

  Length 
  50-54 
  inches; 
  extent 
  78; 
  wing 
  18.5-2 
  1 
  ; 
  tail 
  7 
  ; 
  bill 
  11-12; 
  tarsus 
  

   2.5 
  ; 
  middle 
  toe 
  and 
  claw 
  4.5. 
  

  

  The 
  Brown 
  pelican 
  breeds 
  as 
  far 
  north 
  as 
  South 
  Carolina, 
  and 
  rarely 
  

   straggles 
  up 
  the 
  coast 
  to 
  Massachusetts 
  and 
  Maine; 
  but 
  the 
  only 
  record 
  

   which 
  can 
  be 
  attributed 
  to 
  this 
  State 
  is 
  a 
  specimen 
  taken 
  off 
  Sandy 
  Hook, 
  

   and 
  reported 
  bv 
  DeKay, 
  in 
  his 
  Birds 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  page 
  294. 
  

  

  