344 



FIELD ZOOLOGY. 



with its edge just below the water surface and filling with 

 fish as the birds push through the water. In both cases, 

 after the birds have caught the fish, they lift the head, 

 contract the gular pouch, letting the water run out of the 

 comers of the mouth, throw up the fish so as to let it drop 

 back tail first down the throat. (Fig. ii6.) Their young are 



Totipalmate foot of a pelican. 



fed on the same diet , only the fish are smaller. Pelicans can 

 be kept in confinement, and take to it not unkindly; but 

 they must be provided w^th fish, and this would not be 

 an unwelcome task provided it came in the spring-time 

 and the attendant were a small boy. The tongue of the 

 pelicans is extremely small, a mere knob of a tongue as in 

 the kingfishers. 



All of the Steganopodes, although some of them are 

 extremely large, are especially light on the wing. The 



