. Review of reviews and world's work . elican food thustaken was placed in tanks of formalin andshipped for identification to the UnitedStates Bureau of Fisheries at Washington. NUMBERS OF BIRDS HAD BEEN EXAGGERATED As these birds usually make their rudenests on the ground on barren islands itwas easy to determine closely the numbersof breeding birds by counting their all cases 30 per cent, was added to thiscount to cover the non-breeding birds, viz.,the young of the year before, old bachelors,and unmated females. Here is what wasfound as to numbers: Of the seventeenislands on the Tex
. Review of reviews and world's work . elican food thustaken was placed in tanks of formalin andshipped for identification to the UnitedStates Bureau of Fisheries at Washington. NUMBERS OF BIRDS HAD BEEN EXAGGERATED As these birds usually make their rudenests on the ground on barren islands itwas easy to determine closely the numbersof breeding birds by counting their all cases 30 per cent, was added to thiscount to cover the non-breeding birds, viz.,the young of the year before, old bachelors,and unmated females. Here is what wasfound as to numbers: Of the seventeenislands on the Texas coast said to containcolonies of pelicans, we were able to visitall but one. A group was found breedingon only one of these and here we foundeighteen eggs and thirty-two young. In acruise of abouty eighty miles north fromRockford, through the heart of the pelicancountr)^ not over one hundred pelicans wereseen. However, to be generous, we creditedTexas with 5000 birds, and went foot of the Louisiana coast was cruised. A BROWN PELICAN NEST ON BIRD ISLAND^ SANANTONIO BAY, TEXAS THE CASE OF THE BROWN PELICAN 511
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