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Title: The water birds of North America
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 Brewer, T. M. (Thomas Mayo), 1814-1880 Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929
Subjects: Birds Water birds
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company
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Key, 1872, 300 ; (heck List, 1873, no. 526 ; 2d ed. 18S2, no. 748 ; B. N. W. 1874, 5S6 (synouomy).Pelecanus onocrotalus (A variety), Fokstek, Philos. Trans. LXII. 1772, 419.Pelecanus thagus (nee Mol.), Stephens, Gen. Zool. XIII. 1826, 117 (Mexico).Pelecanus onocrotalus, Bonap. Synop. 1828, 400 (not of Linn.).—Sw. k Rich. F. B. A. II. 1831, 472. — Nl-tt. Man. II. 1S34, 471.Pelecanus HernancUzii, Wagl. Isis, 1S32, p. 1233 (Mexico).Pelecanus amcricanus, Aud. Orn. Biog. IV. 1838, 88, pi. 311 ; Synop. 1839, 309 ; B. Am. VII. 1S44, 20, pi. 122.Pelecanus oecijiilnlis, limuw. Am. Sportsman, IV. 1874, 297 (Nevada). Hab. Temperate North America, north in the interior to about lat. 61°, south to CentralAmerica; rare or casual in the North Atlantic States, abundant in the Middle Province and alongthe Gulf coast. Sp. Char. Tail-feathers, 24. Malar region completely feathered; color chiefly white ; hill,pouch, and feet light-yellowish or reddish. Adult, in full breeding-plumage : Culmen with a
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P. erythrorhynchos. narrow median horny excrescence, situated a little anterior to the middle of the culmen, theupper outline more or less convex, the fibres vertical, the size and exact shape variable. Plu-mage white, sometimes tinged with pale pinkish, the narrow lesser wing-coverts and jugularplumes straw yellow or (rarely) purplish buff ; primaries dull black, their shafts white toward thebase ; secondaries dusky, edged both externally and internally with ashy-white. Upper part ofthe nape with a pendant crest of long, narrow, silky, pure white or pale straw-colored feathers. 134 TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS — STEGANOPODES. Bill chiefly orange, paler on the culmen, the nails and edges of the maxilla and mandible morereddish; mandible deeper red than the maxilla, growing almost brick-red basally; pouch dirty-whitish anteriorly, where suffused with blackish, pn-ssing successively through yellow and orangeinto intense dragons-blood, or brick-red, at the base ; lower edge of the mandible som

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