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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 shown at all 

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



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

 rosy tinge. 



