. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . he misty ages of unknown antiquity. In Dr. Richardsons Introduction to the second volume of the FaunaBoreali-Americana, we are informed, that the Pelecanus Onocrotalus (whichis the bird now named P. Americanus) flies in dense flocks all the summerin the Fur Countries. At page 472, the same intrepid traveller says, thatPelicans are numerous in the interior of the Fur Countries up to the sixty-first parallel; but they seldom come within two hundred miles of HudsonsBay. They deposit their eggs usually on rock
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . he misty ages of unknown antiquity. In Dr. Richardsons Introduction to the second volume of the FaunaBoreali-Americana, we are informed, that the Pelecanus Onocrotalus (whichis the bird now named P. Americanus) flies in dense flocks all the summerin the Fur Countries. At page 472, the same intrepid traveller says, thatPelicans are numerous in the interior of the Fur Countries up to the sixty-first parallel; but they seldom come within two hundred miles of HudsonsBay. They deposit their eggs usually on rocky islands, on the brink ofcascades, where they can scarcely be approached; but they are otherwise byno means shy birds. My learned friend also speaks of the long thin bonyprocess seen on the upper mandible of the bill of this species; and althougneither he nor Mr. Swainson pointed out the actual differences otherwisexisting between this and the European species, he states that no suchappearance has been described as occurring on the bills of the WhitePelicans of the old Continent. ;e. a ^CKi^ Ve<Z?VZ //7ZS/S £&€£&%?£ J/«„;i/;-,,„? .V»./;/*,/ulr< LM FrnutU&.M?,.:/M/A AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN. 21 When, somewhat more than thirty years ago, I first removed to Kentucky,Pelicans of this species were frequently seen by me on the sand-bars of theOhio, and on the rock-bound waters of the rapids of that majestic river,situated, as you well know, between Louisville and Shipping-port. Naywhen, a few years afterwards, I established myself at Henderson, the WhitePelicans were so abundant that I often killed several at a shot, on a wellknown sand-bar, which protects Canoe Creek Island. During those delight-ful days of my early manhood, how often have I watched them with delight!Methinks indeed, reader, those days have returned to me, as if to enable methe better once more to read the scattered notes contained in my often-searched journals. Range
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