REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
FAMILY PELECANIDLE.—THE PELICANS. 
Only two species are found. They are rare visitants. 
American - White Pelican—( Peleccinus erythrorliynchos). 
An exceedingly large, white, swimming bird, with a very long, pouched bill 
and black primaries. 
Breeds in western United States and gulf coast. Winters in tropical 
America. 
Brown Pelican—( Pelecanus occidentalis). 
This is a bird similar to the last, but smaller. It is a yellow-headed, gray- 
backed pelican, with blackish-brown lower parts. In breeding plumage, there 
is a seal-brown stripe along the whole of the back neck. During the rest of 
the year the whole neck is whitish. 
Breeds on Atlantic coast of tropical America to North Carolina. Winters 
in tropical America. Very rare. There are two in the New Jersey Museum, 
shot at Longport, below Atlantic City, N. J. 
FAMILY ANATID2E.—THE DUCKS AND GEESE. 
Thirty-seven species of this family have been taken in eastern 
Pennsylvania and New Jersey. With the exception of the wood 
duck and black duck, they all occur as winter visitants or tran¬ 
sients, and as they habitually frequent the shores of large bodies 
of water, during the winter months, the only localities at which 
they occur in numbers are on the coast of New Jersey and on the 
lower parts of the Delaware. 
On the New Jersey coast ducks have become very scarce of late 
years as compared with the numbers which were formerly found 
there, and most of the migrant flocks now pass on to the Virginian 
coast and bays to spend the winter. 
Of the New Jersey coast ducks, the black duck is the most 
abundant, and after it the scaup ducks. The other species which 
occur are the buffle-head, widgeon, teal, pintail, redhead, mallard, 
golden-eve, American and red-breasted mergansers and Canada 
goose, while off the coast the true sea-loving species are plentiful, 
i. e., the brant, old-squaw and three scoters.. 
