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BROWN PELICAN. 



course of a day. When incited to exertion by hunger 

 the Pelicans fly from their resting-place, and raising 

 themselves thirty or forty feet above the surface of 

 the sea, turn their head with one eye downwards, and 

 continue to fly in that position till they see a fish 

 sufficiently near the surface. They then dart down 

 with astonishing swiftness, seize it with unerring cer- 

 tainty, and store it up in their pouch. Having done 

 this they rise again, and continue the same actions 

 till they have procured a competent stock. 



BROWN PELICAN. 



(Pelecanus fuscus.) 



Pe. cinereO'fusciiSi capite suhcristata collogue albidis, remigibus 



primoribus nigris. 

 Ashy-brown Pelican with a slightly crested whitish head and neck, 



the primary quills black. 

 Pelecanus fuscus (occidentalis). Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 215. jS. 



GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. 570. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 883. 

 Onocrotalus fuscus. Briss. Orn. 6. 524. Raii Syn. 191. 

 Pelican brun. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 306. Buff. PI. EnU 957. 

 Brown Pelican. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 506. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 



580. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 405. 



Nearly four feet in length : beak fifteen inches 

 and a quarter long : greenish at the base, and in- 

 clining to a blue or bluish-red towards the tip : the 

 pouch is of a bluish-ash colour, streaked with red- 

 dish : the irides are deep bluish-ash colour : the naked 



