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Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York State Museum
Subjects: New York State Museum Science Science
Publisher: Albany : University of the State of New York
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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he parents gullet until their whole head is sometimes out ofsight. This peculiar habit coupled with the fact that the pelicans pouchand gullet is often bloody from wounds made by the spines of fishes whichit has swallowed, undoubtedly gave rise to the legend that the pelicannourishes its young with blood from its own breast. White pelicans fishin companies, driving the fish before them and scooping them up as theycome to the surface; but brown pelicans catch their prey by plunging froma hight of 20 feet, or more, as they course back and forth above the waterand the resulting splash may be heard for a half mile (Chapman). Pelecanus erythrorhynchos GmelinAmerican White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos GmeHn. Syst. Nat. 1788. Ed. i. 2:571 A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 125 pelecdnus, Lat., peHcan; eryihrorhynchus, Gr. spuOpoq, red, and rjXioq beak Description. Breeding plumage: White; primaries black; occipitalcrest and wing coverts dull yellow; a horny prominence on the bill. In
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White pelican. Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin. Cayuga specimen in State Museum. i nat. size 174 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM winter: No crest or horn. Bill, pouch, eyelids and feet yellow, nearly redin the breeding season; iris white. Young: Brownish on the top of thehead, otherwise white. The White pelican is a rare straggler on the waters of New York State. In colonial days it was more common according to reports, but now, like the cranes and swans, it confines its migrations mostly to the Mississippi valley and western America. Eleven specimens have been recorded from this State: Saratoga lake, N. Y. Nov. 1788. Munsell, Annals of Albany, i: 275 Canarsie ba)^ L. I. L. I. Hist. See. Col. Dutcher, Auk, 10: 270 Chautauqua lake, N. Y. About i860. A. C. Kibbe Lake Champlain, N. Y. Oct. 15, 1862. F. T. Pember Cayuga lake, N. Y. Spring 1864. (2). Beal, Am. Nat. i: 323 Roslyn, L. I. May 11, 1885. S. H. West, Forest and Stream, 24: 328 Cayuga, N. Y. Early fall 1888. (Foster Parker) N. Y. State co

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