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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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g were observedin nests built at least twenty feet above the ground in the mangroves. In themiddle of the following January the same birds were observed fishing, ap-parently under the supervision of their parents, whose example they followedin diving into the water. On March 12, a few miles west of Villamil, Albemarle Island, four occupiednests were found in the low mangroves fringing the rocky shore. They werebuilt in the usual bulky style, and the two which were examined each containedthree incubated eggs. At Banks Bay, Albemarle, April 11, three nests werefound in some small mangroves about eight feet high. They w^ere shallow, builtof sticks, lined with grass, and placed very little above the high-water mark.One had naked youngsters in it; the second contained three eggs; and the thirdwas new. In the middle of .Tuly, at Academy Bay, the same nests which had young inthem the previous November, again contained partly fledged, squawking young- U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 121 PL. 64
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LIFE HISTORIES OF NOBTH AMERICAN PETRELS AND PELICANS. 303 sters, eight months only having elapsed since the previous brood. They were fedby running their bills well into the parents pouch and gulping in the food. Eggs.—The eggs are like those of the brown pelican, but decidedlylarger. The measurements of 48 eggs, in various collections, average78.5 by 50.G millimeters; the eggs showing the four extremes measure85 by 51.2, 78 by 54, 69 by 49, and 75 by 47 millimeters. Young.—Mr. A. B. Howell has sent me the following notes on thebehavior of the young: They are noisy little fellows, clucking to themselves continuously, and with aflirt of the wings at each cluck. In spite of their tender age they are verypugnacious, and they need to be, even though it does not do them much goodwhen the western gulls take a notion to peek out their brains. When two-thirds grown they remind one of partly plucked geese, especially as they aregiven to flocking before an intruder. They are only too ready

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