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Subgenus CYRTOPELICANUS Reichenbach. 



Cyrtopelicanus Reichenbach, Avium Syst. Nat., 1852 [1853], vii. Type, 

 by orig. desig., Pelecanus trachyrhynchus Latham = P. erythrorhynchos 

 Gmelin. 



Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin. White Pelican. [125.] 



Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 571. Based 

 on the Rough-billed Pelican Latham, General Synops., Ill, Pt. ii, 

 586. (in America septentrionali = Hudson Bay.) 



Range. — Breeds from central British Columbia and Great Slave Lake to 

 central Manitoba, northern Utah, southern Texas, western Nevada, and south- 

 ern California (formerly to central Minnesota, north-central Wisconsin, South 

 Dakota and Colorado). Winters from northern California, the Gulf States, 

 Florida, along both coasts of Mexico, and in the interior, as far as Panama. 

 Casual in Cuba, Antigua, and Trinidad; accidental on the Atlantic coast of 

 the United States and in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan, Ontario, New Bruns- 

 wick, and northern Mackenzie. 



Subgenus LEPTOPELICANUS Reichenbach. 



Leptopelicanus Reichenbach, Avium Syst. Nat., 1852 [1853], vii. Type, by 

 orig. desig., Pelecanus fuscus Gmelin = P. occidentalis Linnaeus. 



Pelecanus occidentalis occidentalis Linnaeus. Eastern Brown Pelican. 



[126.] 



Pelecanus Onocroi[alus] /3 occidentalis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 1766, 

 215. Based mainly on the Pelican of America Edwards, Nat. Hist. 

 Birds, 93. (in America = Jamaica.) 



Range. — Breeds on the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States 

 and the Atlantic coast of Central and South America from South Carolina, 

 Louisiana, and Texas south to Brazil; found also in the Bahamas, the West 

 Indies, on the Pacific coast of Colombia and Ecuador, and in the Galdpagos 

 Islands. Winters from Florida and the Gulf coast southward. Casual in North 

 Carolina and Virginia; accidental in Bermuda, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, 

 Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Maine (?), New York, New Jersey, 

 Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Nova Scotia. 



Pelecanus occidentalis californicus Ridgway. California Brown Pelican. 



[127.] 



P[elecanus] californicus Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Water Birds N. Amer., II, 1884, 132, 143. (Coast of California from 

 San Francisco Bay to Cape St. Lucas = La Paz, Lower California.) 



