. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . Coloration as in pelagicus, size smaller, bill nearly as long, but : , tail , bill Distribution. — Pacific coast from Cape Flattery to Mazatlan, Mexico. The Baird cormorant is usually less common than the Faralloneor Brandt cormorants, breeding apart from them in communities onthe islands or rocky points off shore. FAMILY PELECANIDJE : PELICANS. GENUS PELECANUS. General Characters. - - Bill much longer than head, upp
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . Coloration as in pelagicus, size smaller, bill nearly as long, but : , tail , bill Distribution. — Pacific coast from Cape Flattery to Mazatlan, Mexico. The Baird cormorant is usually less common than the Faralloneor Brandt cormorants, breeding apart from them in communities onthe islands or rocky points off shore. FAMILY PELECANIDJE : PELICANS. GENUS PELECANUS. General Characters. - - Bill much longer than head, upper mandible flat;a large pouch of elastic, naked skin hung as a fish-net from flexible sidesof lower mandible. KEY TO SPECIES. 1. Color mainly white erythrorhyiichos. p. \~1. 1. Color mainly grayish brown calif oriiicus, p. 43. Subgenus Cyrtopelicanus. 125. Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmel. AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN. Tail feathers 24. Breeding plumage : mainly white, primaries and mostof secondaries black ; back of head with thin white or yellowish crest, breastand lesser wing coverts with narrow lanceolate yellowish feathers; upper. Fig.
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