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LOPHODYTES CUCULLATU3. (Linn.) Reich. 
Hooded Merganser. 
Mergus cucullalus, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 207.—Gmelin, I, 544.—Wit.son, Am. Orn. VIII, 79; pi. lxix — Bon. Obs. 
No. 251.—Sw. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 463.— Nuttal, Man. II, 465.— Aud. Orn. Blog. Ill, 1835, 
216: V, 619; pi. 233 — -Ib. Syn. 299 .—Ib. Birds Amer. VI, 1843,402; pi.413. 
L'pholytes c/mUntu?, Rmch. Systema Avium, 1852, p. ix —Bonap. Comptes Rendus, XLIII, 1856. —Baird, Gen. Rep. 
Birds, 816. 
Sp Ch —Head with an elongated, compressed, semicircular crest. Anterior extremity of nostrils reaching not quite as far 
as the middle of commissure. Fron'al feathers extending nearly as far as half the distance from lateral feathers to nostril; the 
latter much beyond the feathers on side of lower mandible. Bill shorter than head. 
Male.— Bill black. Head,neck, and back black; under parts and centre of crest white. Sides chestnut brown, barred with 
black. White anterior to the wing, crossed by two black crescents. Lesser coverts gray; white speculum with a basal and 
median black bar; black tertials streaked centrally with white. 
Female with a shorter and more pointed crest. The head and neck reddish brown: the back without pure black; the sides 
without transverse bars; the white of wings less extended. 
Length, 17. 50; wing, 7.90; tarsus, 1.20; commissure, 1.98 
Hub .—Whole of North America. 
The beautiful hooded merganser is extremely common in winter on the fresh water lakes 
near Fort Steilacoom, where I obtained several fine specimens of both sexes. They al?o breed 
sparingly in the neighborhood. 
In the summer of 1856 I shot one out of a brood of half grown young, which were being 
reared on a small sluggish stream near the garrison garden. Being but slightly wounded it 
showed great dexterity in swimming, diving, and hiding, and other spirited endeavors to escape. 
The rest of the brood, being unharmed, took to the shore and managed most successfully to 
hide in the long grass near the water. The individual shot was about two-thirds grown, and 
seemed to be in color an exact miniature of the adult female.—S. 
The hooded merganser is often shot in winter, but I never saw it during summer in the 
Territory.—C. 
Family PELECANIDAE. The Pelicans. 
PELECANUS ERYTHRORHYNCHUS, Gmelin. 
Rougli-billetl or 'Wliite Felicnn. 
Pelecanus erythrorhynchus, Gm. Syst. Nat. 1788, 571. 
Pekcanus trachyrhynchus, Lath. Ind. Orn. II, 1790, 834.— Bon. Comp. List, 1838,60.— Gray, Gen. of Birds, 1845, 309. 
Cyrtopelicanus trachyrhynchus, Bon. Cons. Av. II, 1855, 163. 
Pelecanus on.crUalus, Bon. Syn. 1828, No. 351 .—Rich, and Sw. F. Bor. Am. 11,1831, 472.— Nutt. Man. II, 1834,471. 
Pelecanus americanus, Aud. Orn. Biog. IV, 1838, 88. —Ib. Syn. 1839. —Ib. Birds Am. VII, 1844, 20; pi. ccccxxii. 
Sp. Ch—H ead with a yellow occipital crest; bill yellow, sub-maxillary pouch very largo; general color white; primaries 
black, second the longest; legs and feet very strong. 
Adult male. —The general plumage is pure white; in the breeding season, with a roseate tinge; the crest and elongated feathers 
on the breast pale yellow: the alula, primary coverts and primaries black, the shafts of the latter white for the greater part of 
their length, beiDg brownish black at the end ; the outer secondaries black, the inner more or less white, the shafts of all white 
undernea h. Bill yellow, with the edges and unguis reddish ; upper mandible high at the base, but becoming gradually flattened 
to the end ; on the ridge just beyond the middle of the bill is a thin elevated bony process about one inch high, and extending 
towards the end for three or four inches; lower mandible broad at the base, with the cruta separated nearly to the point; 
underneath the lower mandible, beginning at the junction of the cruta, aud extending down the neck for about eight inchep, 
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