460 PBLECAN1D.?5. 



Family V. PELECANIDiE. 



Palatines fused in the middle line, and provided with a deep 

 median keel. Furculum fused with the carina sterni, which is 

 ahout three quarters of the length of the corpus sterni. {W. F, 

 Pycraft.) 



1. PELECANUS.* TyiJe. 



Onocrotalus, Brisson, Orn. vi. p. 519 (17G0) . . P. onocrotalus. 



Pelecanus, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 215 (1766) P. onocrotalus. 



Cyrtopelicanus, Reichenb. Nat'url. Syst. Viic/. 



p. vii (185.3) P. erythrorhynchus. 



Leptopelicanus, Reichenb. Natiirl. /S)/st. Vog. 



p. vii (1853) P. fuscus. 



Catoptropelicanus, Reichenb. Natiirl. Syst. Voy. 



p. vii (1853) _ P. conspicillatus. 



Bill greatly elongate and much depressed, narrower and higher 

 at the base, broader and flattened towards the end, composed of a 

 median bar, running the whole length of the bill, and terminating 

 in a strongly hooked nail, and of two lateral portions divided from 

 the median bar by a very narrow groove, in the basal part of which 

 the small nostril opens, llami of lower mandible thin and flexible, 

 supporting a very large distensible gular pouch. Wings very large ; 

 tail short, composed of 22 or 24 feathers. Tarsi compressed, reticu- 

 late, 



Mixnge. Tropical and temperate regions of the Old and New 

 Worlds. 



* The following works refer to the osteology and anatomy, ete., of the group : — 

 Owen, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 9 [anatomy of P. riifescens $ ] ; Martin, P. Z. S. 1835, 

 p. 16 [anatomy of P. rufescens (^] ; Brandt, Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. (6) v. pt. ii. 

 Livr. ii.pp. 110, 141, 183, pis. vii. & viii. (1839) [osteology of P.C7-ispus] ; Parker, 

 P. Z. S. 1860, p. 328 [anatomy of P. onocrotahig] ; Hunter, Ess. Obs. Nat. 

 Hist. ii. p. 326 (1861) [anatomy of P. onocrotalus and P. /mscm.?] ; Gulliver, 

 P. Z. S. 1862, p. 102, and 1875, p. 488 [red corpuscles in P. onocrotalus]; 

 Milne-Edw. Ann. Sci. Nat. (6) iii. pp. 137-142 (1865) [air-cells] ; Giebel, Zeit. 

 ges. Naturw. 1865, pp. 250-257 [osteology of P. erythrorht/nchiis, P. crispus, 

 P. onocrotalus] ; Hu.xley, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 438, figs. 20, 20a [skull of P. ono- 

 crotalus] ; Eyton, Osteol. Av. p. 219, pis. 7 l, 38. fig. 2 (1867) ; Nitzsch, Pteryl., 

 Engl. ed. p. 149 (1867) ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 335 [P. rufescens and P. ono- 

 crotalus have left carotid only], p. 340 [pectoral muscle], and p. 342 [stomach] ; 

 Alix, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. ii. p. 287 (1877) [anatomy]; Mivart, Tr. Z. S. x. 

 pp. 315-378, pis. Iv. & Ixi. figs. 1-6 (1878) [skeleton] : Forbes, Ibis, 1881, p. 23 

 [anatomy]; Nathusius, J. f. O. 18S2, pp. 285-292 [shell of egg] ; Shufeldt, P. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. xi. pp. 253-315 (1888) [osteology] ; id. Ibis, 1894, p. 366 

 [anatomy of P. fuscus] ; id, J. Anat. Phys. xxxiii. pp. 165-186, pis. 400- 

 427. 



