General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . BROWN PELICANS (Pelecanus occidcntalis). 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 they skim just above the crest of curling breakers. EMPEROR PENGUIN (Aptenodytes forsteri).1 his is the largest of the existing species of thepenguins. The mounted bird here shown, amale, weighed seventy-nine pounds. The Em-peror Penguin is exclusively Antarc
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . BROWN PELICANS (Pelecanus occidcntalis). 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 they skim just above the crest of curling breakers. EMPEROR PENGUIN (Aptenodytes forsteri).1 his is the largest of the existing species of thepenguins. The mounted bird here shown, amale, weighed seventy-nine pounds. The Em-peror Penguin is exclusively Antarctic, inhabit-ing the fringing ice of the south polar continentand the adjacent islands. It rarely sets foot uponland or rock. The single egg is laid on the icein midwinter and is carried on top of the birdsfoot until it hatches, the male and female tak-ins; turns at incubation fruits, whereas those with long slenderbills must use them in extracting nectaror small insects and spiders from thecorolla of flowers. Several examples ofthese honeyeaters are exhibited but itwould be impossible to show the wholerange of variation in bills without draw-ing upon species inhabiting other islandsof the Hawaiian group. At the right of the group three geese areshown in flight, the species being peculiarto Hawaii. In the air, down the valley, aretwo white-tailed tropic-birds, and thesmall land bir
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