PELECANIN^. PELECANUS. 
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423. 1. Pelecanus Americanus, Aud. American White 
Pelican. 
Plate CCCXL Male. 
Bill with an erect crest on the ridge^ and with the gular pouch and 
feet bright yellow ; plumage white ; elongated feathers on the occiput 
and breast pale yellow, with which also the smaller wing-coverts are 
tinged ; alula^ primary coverts^ primary quills^ and outer secondaries, 
black, with white shafts, inner ten secondaries white; tail of twenty - 
four feathers. Female generally without the horny crest, otherwise 
similar. 
Male, 61 1, 103; bill, ]3|. 
Common during winter from Texas to South Carolina, both along 
the coast, and about the lakes and rivers adjoining Missouri, Missis- 
sippi, and Ohio Rivers. Breeds from California northward, to Lat. 61°. 
Accidental in the Middle Atlantic Districts. 
American White Pelican, Pelecanus americanus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 88. 
424. 2. Pelecanus fuscus, Linn. Brown Pelican. 
Plate CCLI. Male. Plate CCCCXXI. Young. 
Bill greyish-white, tinged with brown, and marked with irregular 
spots of pale carmine ; bare space between the bill and the eye 
deep blue, eyelids pink, gular pouch greenish-black ; feet black ; 
hair-like feathers on the fore part of the head light yellow, the rest of 
the head white ; a stripe of the same margining the pouch to the mid- 
dle of the neck ; a short space between these two lines anteriorly, and 
the whole of the posterior and lateral parts of the neck dark chestnut- 
brown, the small crest paler ; back and wings dusky, each feather 
with the central part greyish-white ; the latter colour prevailing on 
the scapulars and larger wing-coverts ; primaries and coverts brownish- 
black, secondaries greyish-brown ; their outer edges greyish- white ; 
tail light grey, shafts of quills and tail-feathers white, unless toward 
the end ; lower parts brownish-grey ; sides of the neck and body with 
narrow longitudinal white lines ; on the fore neck, below the dark 
chestnut spot a smaller pale yellow mark, behind which the feathers 
for a short space are blackish-brown. Young in second plumage with 
the bill greyish-blue, its edges and unguis greyish-yellow; gular pouch 
dull greyish-blue ; bare space aroun d the eye dusky blue ; head and 
neck dark brown, as are the upper parts generally ; secondary and 
many of the smaller coverts margined with pale brown ; primaries and 
their coverts, as well as the tail-coverts, brownish-black, with white 
shafts ; feet and claws dull leaden. Tail of twenty-two feathers. 
Adult, 52, 80. 
Very abundant and constantly resident from Texas along the shores 
