. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and Lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds. PHALA CBOCOBA CIJ3M: COBMOBANTS. 723 with light and dark colors, much tinged in places with carmine ; eyes white; bare space around them blue; eyeMs red; pouch blackis
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and Lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds. PHALA CBOCOBA CIJ3M: COBMOBANTS. 723 with light and dark colors, much tinged in places with carmine ; eyes white; bare space around them blue; eyeMs red; pouch blackish; feet black. Plumage dark and much variegated. Head mostly white, tinged with yellow on top, the white extending down the neck as a border- ing of the pouch and somewhat beyond ; rest of neck dark chestnut. Upper parts dusky, each feather pale or whitish-centred, the paler gray color prevailing on the wing-coverts. Prima- ries blackish, their shafts basally white; secondaries dark, pale-edged; tail-feathers gray. Lower parts grayish-brown, striped with white on the sides; the lower fore-neck varied with yellow, chestnut, and blackish. 9 said to lack the chestnut coloring of the neck (?) Length about feet; extent feet; wing 2 feet; bill a foot or more, the gular pouch extending about the same distance along the neck. Tail , 22-feathered; tarsus ; middle toe and • claw The bill and soft parts very variable in color with age or other circumstance. Young lack the special coloration of the neck, which is simply dark brown. At first, covered with whitish down. The feathers of the neck of the adult are peculiarly soft and downy; there is a slight nuchal crest, with stiflf bristly feathers on the forehead, and lengthened acute feathers on the lower foreneck and breast. The brown pelican is exclusively maritime, inhabiting both coasts of America from tropical regions to Carolina and California. It plunges for its prey like a gannet, not scooping it up swimmin
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