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Title: Reptiles and birds : a popular account of their various orders, with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Figuier, Louis, 1819-1894 Gillmore, Parker
Subjects: Reptiles Birds
Publisher: London : Cassell & Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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he White PeHcan,inhabits the south-east of Europe and Africa, and is also found inHungary, Dalmatia, Greece, the Crimea, and the Ionian Islands, aswell as in Algeria, and, according to some authors, it is frequentlymet with in China.* It has white plumage, with the exception that the ends of thefeathers of the back and wings are black. The feathers of the headand upper part of the neck are twisted up so as to form a tolerably * On the Chinese coast, near Canton, and in the estuaries and creeks ofMicrs Bay, I have frequently found it.—Ed. THE CRESTED PELICAN. 273 large tuft or crest, hence the name it bears. Its European habitat isprincipally the marshes round the Black Sea, and the isles adjacent tcthe mouth of the Danube. Of their modes of life travellers in those regions give very inte-resting descriptions. Count Aliikle states that they are plentiful onthe lakes of Missolonghi and in the marshy grounds near Thermo-pylae. In situations difficult of access, such as floating islands
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Fig. 100.—The Crested Pelican. scarcely over the ^^;ater-hne, they place their nests, supported by thereeds and rushes. The vicinity of these breeding-places are rencleredindescribably offensive by decomposed fish droj^ped about, and theaisagreeable white dung with which all the neighbourhood is coveredTime was, says Mr. W. H. Simpson, -and that not so lon^ago, when Fchccmns crispusr^ lived in hundreds all the year roundh-om the rocky promontory of Kourtzalari, hard by the mouth of theAchelous, on the western extremity of the lagoon, near the island01 zi.tolico, up the nortliern arm, and on the east along the great ^•- Bonapartes synonym for this species. 274 REPTILES AND BIRDS. mud flats which mark the limits of the present delta of Phidaris.Nowadays, however, a solitary individual may be seen fishing hereand there throughout the vicinity; the remnant have betaken them-selves to the islands which divide the Gulf of Procopanisto from thatof ^tolico. Here, towards the end of Februa

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