NO. 1116. 



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Family PELECANID^Fl. 



Genus PELECANUS, Liunseus. 



Pelecanus, LinN/EUS, Syst. Nat., lOtli ed., I, 1758, p. ILi'i, Type, by elimination 

 /'. onocrotalus, LinniBus. 



Range. — iS"oiirly cosmopolitan (wanting- in Xew Zealand and Polyne- 

 sia). Galapagos Archipelago (one species, fonnd also on Pacific coast 

 of America). 



ASCERTAINED RANGE OF THE GENUS PELECANUS, LINNj:US, IN THE GALAPAGOS 



ARCHIPELAGO. 



1. Pelecanus fi( sens callforv'icus, Ridgway. 

 PELECANUS FUSCUS CALIFORNICUS, Ridgway. 



Pelecanus fuscus (ncc Linn.eus), Sundevall, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 125 (Gala- 

 pagos Islands).— Salvin, Trans. Zool. Soc, IX, Pt. ix, 187tj, p. 496 (Galapagos 

 Islands); Proc. Zool. Soc, 1883, p. 427 (Charles Island; Payta, Peru). 



Pelecanus fuscus ( ?) californicus, Ridgway, in Baird. Brewer and Ridgway's Water 

 15irds N. Amer., II, August, 1884, p. 143 (La Paz, Lower California; collec- 

 tion, IT. S.Nat. Mas.). 



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