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Birds of Indian Subcontinent

Family PELECANIDAE (SWIMMING FISHERS)

Family PELECANIDAE (SWIMMING FISHERS).

PELICANS.

Huge bill, long and flattened, with pouch. Tail of twenty to twenty-four feathers, rounded. Of large size. Web between toes not emarginate. Frequent inland lakes and rivers. Tropical and temperate regions of Old and New Worlds.

BookTitle: 
Game, Shore And Water Birds Of India
Reference: 
Le Messurier, Augustus. Game, Shore, and Water Birds of India Fourth Edition, 1904.
Title in Book: 
Family PELECANIDAE
Book Author: 
A Le Messurier
Year: 
1904
Page No: 
232
M_ID: 
2365
M_SN: 
Pelecanidae
Volume: 
4th ed.
Term name: 
id: 
13079

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