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My wife shot this photo off the coast of Cambria CA this morning and asked me "so which one is the the hood ornament on our 51 -the Pelican or the Cormorant?"

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Cambria is one of my favorite places along the Central Coast.

In 1932 they called it a Pelican. In 1951 they called it a Pelican. In 1948 they called it a Cormorant.

I call it a duck and some people call it a swan.

I always thought it looked like a swan - a much more graceful bird. Cormorants are foul nasty birds. Pelicans are good for comic relief.

I think I've been through this movie before, but the bird in the coat of arms is a pelican, and the notion that the pelican feeds its young its own blood, depicted therein, is why its part of Christian symbology. So if the bird in the hood ornament is the same as in the coat of arms, it's a pelican. But the sculpture of it definitely looks like a cormorant. The swans with the plastic wings that truck drivers went for,are swans, but not Packard ones. And that is the name of that tune.