. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. FAM. LI. MAN-O'-WAR BIRDS 307 air. They often pursue and steal the captured food of gulls, terns, and other birds. 1. Man-o'-War Bird (128. Fregclta dquila). — A tropical, large, long-winged, black, ocean bird, with long, deeply forked tail. The female is a dark brown bird with the breast and upper belly white. The young is like the fe- male, but also has the head and neck white. This bird spends most of its time on the wing, and usually over the water. It is a ki
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. FAM. LI. MAN-O'-WAR BIRDS 307 air. They often pursue and steal the captured food of gulls, terns, and other birds. 1. Man-o'-War Bird (128. Fregclta dquila). — A tropical, large, long-winged, black, ocean bird, with long, deeply forked tail. The female is a dark brown bird with the breast and upper belly white. The young is like the fe- male, but also has the head and neck white. This bird spends most of its time on the wing, and usually over the water. It is a kind of sea buzzard. The man-o'-war birds nest together in thousands in low bushes near the coast. Length, 40 ; wing, 25 (22-27) ; tail, 18 ; tarsus, 1; culmen, 4|. Tropi- cal and subtropical coasts. In America, north to Florida and Texas, and casually to Ohio, Kansas, Nova Scotia, Mau-o'-War Bird FAMILY LII. PELICANS (PELECANIDiE) A small family (12 species) of very large, short-tailed birds, with very long, peculiarly pouched bills, the pouch being used like a dip net for catching its fishy food. Under the skin there are great air sacs like those of the gannets. This makes them peculiarly buoyant on the water, and gives them great grace of movement. In the air, also, their movements are easy and strong, but not very rapid. They give a few flaps of the wings, then sail a short distance, then again give a few flaps of the wings. They are usually in flocks, and it is interesting to see the alternate flapping and sailing of the whole as though directed by a leader. These birds nest in large colonies, and are found in all the warmer parts of the world. Some are exclusively marine, and some are found far from the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig), 1838-1908
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