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Title: Life histories of North American petrels and pelicans and their allies; order Tubinares and order Steganopodes
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Bent, Arthur Cleveland, 1866-1954
Subjects: Petrels Pelicans Procellariiformes Pelecaniformes Birds -- North America
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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icuous figureof the bird life in such localities. These birds are not considered game bythe Mexicans and this combined with the high price of ammunition, is sufficientto protect them from wanton killing so that they are not often disturbedand will permit a canoe to approach within easy gunshot before they clumsilytake flight. They are heavy-bodied and awkward and frequently fall from theperch into the water and try to escape by swimming in preference to flight.When driven to take wing from such a perch they commonly make a broadcircuit and returning pass near the canoe and turn their heads in evidentcuriosity to examine the cause of the alarm. Their flight like that of othercormorants is steady and rather labored, and as they circle about an intruderthey often glide for some distance on outspread wings, turning their long out-stretched necks toward the object of their curiosity and presenting almostas grotesque an appearance as the snake-bird. U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 121 PL. 52
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LIFE HISTOEIES OF NORTH AMERICAN PETRELS AND PELICANS. 265 Mr. H. H. Bailey (1906) saw numbers of cormorants which hetook to be of this species fishin*^ near the surf on tlie west coast ofMexico. Mr. C. William Beebe (1905) says that their food in thebarrancas is parti) vegetable, not exclusively fish. What we knowabout the behavior and voice of the species is included in the abovequotations and I regret that I can add nothing more to its life his-tory. There seems to be no fall migration and its winter home andhabits are probably the same as at other seasons. DISTRIDUTION. Breeding range.—Tropical North and Central America. Northto northwestern Mexico (Guaymas), southeastern Texas (Browns-ville), southern Louisiana (Lake Arthur), Cuba, Isle of Pines, andBahamas (Watling Island). South to Nicaragua. South Ameri-can birds are subspecifically distinct. Winter range.—Resident throughout its breeding range. Casual records.—Has wandered north to Colorado (near Denver,October 15, 1899

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