140 POPULAR OFFICIAL GUIDE. 
BROWN AND WHITE PELICANS. 
the following species in Central and South America, to their 
most remote haunts, sometimes even at the risk of their 
lives. Fashion has decreed that the egrets must go. 
The American Egret, (Herodias egretta)—Much to the 
misfortune of this species, it possesses about fifty ‘‘aigrette”’ 
plumes which droop in graceful curves from the middle of 
its back far beyond the tail and wing tips. For these beau- 
tiful feathers this bird has been pursued by plume hunters 
almost to the point of total extermination in the United 
States. 
The White Pelican, (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos), is one of 
the largest birds of North America and by reason of its 
size, its pure white plumage, its enormously long amber- 
colored bill and gular pouch, it is one of the most showy 
birds in the aviary. As consumers of fish they stand pre- 
eminent among birds, and their only rivals in the Park are 
the sea-lions. The specimens exhibited were collected for the 
Society in southern Texas. 
The Brown Pelican, (Pelecanus occidentalis), when adult, 
is a handsome and showy bird, and one which not only is 
easily reconciled to life in a comfortable aviary, but posi- 
tively enjoys it. The specimens in our collection were col- 
lected for the Society on Pelican Island, Florida, and their 
interesting home life at that place may be studied from the 
series of photographs on exhibition in the Aquatic Bird 
House. When their daily allowance of fish appears they 
