GU GLE.INIA'aS. 



the young lead-color above, is i-xtremely boreal, breeding 

 about the straits of Hudson's Bay, and is more lomnion in 

 the west than in the east in its southern migralions. 



The Blue Goose {A. ficntlesceiis), nearly the size of the 

 former, and about the same form, plumage ashy-blue, 

 varied with brown, head, tail-coverts and under parts, 

 white — should be regarded as a distinct species, and not 

 merely the young of the former. This has been placed l>e- 

 yond a doubt by the late researches of Mr. Wm. Dutclier; 

 and Mr. Fortiscue, of Hudson's Bay, says that the two 

 species occupy distinct breeding habitats in the north. 



The Brant Goose {Bnxiita bcrnkUi) is some 'J feet long, 

 head and neck black to the breast, a patch of white streaks 

 on the middle of the neck, upper tail-coverts, white, brown- 

 ish-gray above, and lighter underneath, beeimiing white 

 toward the under tail-coverts. It is an arctic sj^eeies, visit- 

 ing the Atlantic to the Southern States in winter. There is 

 a darker variety called the Black Brant, rare on the Atlantic, 

 but abundant on the Pacific. 



The Booby Gannet {Stilajibcr), a little smaller than the 

 Common Gannet, brown, white from the neek down, bill 

 and feet yellow, belongs to the South Atlantic and Gulf 

 States. 



The White Pelican {Pc/craniis tracliyrliynchui), about 5 ft'et 

 long and 8 or i) feet in expanse, is white; back of ihc head 

 and breast, yellow ; fore part of the wings, black; bill, sack 

 and feet, yellow. Wintering in the Southern States, and 

 breeding in the northwest, it is but accidental on the North 

 and Middle Atlantic. The Brown Pelican {T.fiisciis) is 

 strictly maritime, found on the Soutli Atlantic and (julf 

 Coasts, and in California. The mc>st maiked fealiire of 

 tliese peculiar birds is the lari^e sack undi'r tlir chin, easily 

 holding several quarts, and used as a sort of dip-net for 



