General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . BROWN PELICANS (Pelecamts occidentalis). Brown Pelicans inhabit our coasts from SouthCarolina to the West Indies. They often fly in diagonal files and under favorable conditions saillong distances on set wings. Facing the wind, they travel high, but at times thev skim just above the crest of curling breakers. EMPEROR PENGUIN (Aptenodytes forsterii This is the largest of the existing species of thepenguins. The mounted bird here shown, a male,weighed seventy-nine pounds. The Emperor Pen-guin is excusively Antarcti
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . BROWN PELICANS (Pelecamts occidentalis). Brown Pelicans inhabit our coasts from SouthCarolina to the West Indies. They often fly in diagonal files and under favorable conditions saillong distances on set wings. Facing the wind, they travel high, but at times thev skim just above the crest of curling breakers. EMPEROR PENGUIN (Aptenodytes forsterii This is the largest of the existing species of thepenguins. The mounted bird here shown, a male,weighed seventy-nine pounds. The Emperor Pen-guin is excusively Antarctic, inhabiting the fring-ing ice of the south polar continent and the adja-cent islands. It rarely sets foot upon land or single egg is laid on the ice in midwinter andis carried on top of the birds foot until it hatchedthe male and female taking turns at incubation At the right of the group three geese areshown in flight, the species being peculiarto Hawaii. In the air, down the valley, arctwo white-tailed tropic-birds, and the smallland birds include one or more species havingtufts of brightly colored feathers whichwere used by the ancient Hawaiians in manu-facturing the famous feather cloaks worn bvchiefs of high Albatrosses, of which there arc someseventeen species in the world, resort duringthe nesting season to remote oceanic they carry on th
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