480 PELECANID.'E, 



0. Iimn. sk. Chiapam, Pacific coast of Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Guatemala, Jan. (O. »S'.). 



». Ad. sk. Panama. Capt.Kellett& Lieut. 



Wood, R.N. [P.]. 



q. Imm. sk. Charles I., Galapagos, Feb. Salvin-Godman (Joll. 



{Admiral A. H.Mark- 

 ham). 



7. Pelecanus thagus. (Plate V. b.) 



Pelecanus thagus, Molina, Hist. Nat. Chili, p. 212 (1786) & p. 220 

 (ed. Gall. 1789) ; Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 577 (1788) ; Latham, 

 Inrl. Orn. ii. p. 884 ri790) ; Lacep. ^- JDuudin, in Biif. Hist. 

 Nat. ri8mo, Didot), Quadr. xiv. p. 320, Ois. xvi. p. 228 (1799) ; 

 Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 140 (1817^. 



Saw-billed Pelican, Lath. Gen. Hist. x. p. 409 (1824) [Chili]. 



Pelecanus fuscus, Vieill. {nee Gmel.) Gal. Ois. ii. p. 192, pi. 27G 

 (1825) ; Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 603 (1831) ; Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. 

 Soc. p. 297 (1849); Schler/. Mus. Pays-Bas, vi. Pelecani, p. 28 

 (1863) [part. Chili]; Tacz'.Orn. Peroii, iii. p._424 (1886). 



Pelecanus molinae, G. P. Gray. List of B. pt. iii. p. 189 (1844) ; id. 

 Gen. B. iii. p. 668 (1845) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 269 ; Mliot, 

 P. Z. S. 1869, p. 588, pi. xliv. [immature] ; G. P. Gray, Hand-l. 

 B. iii. p. 130 (187n ; Tacz. Orn. Peruu, iii. p. 424 (1886) ; Meyer, 

 J.f. O. 1890, p. 165 [Callao] ; Jatnes, N. List Chil. B. p. 8 (1892) ; 

 Berlepsch .§• Stohm. P. Z. S. 1892, p. 399 [Peru] ; Lane, Ibis, 1897, 

 p. 185 [North and Central Chili]. 



Pelecanus thayus, Tsch. Faun. Peru., Orn. p. 312 (1846). 



Onocrotalus thagus, Bonap. Consp. Av. ii. p. 164 (1855) [part, Chili, 

 Bolivia] ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 653 [Central Peru]. 



Pelecanus barbieri, Oastal Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) ii. p. 208 (1878). 



Pelecanus fuscus, var. molinse, Dubois, Bull. Mus. Belq. ii. p. 11 

 (1883). 



Adult {probably female) in breeding-plumage. Very similar to the 

 adult of P. f\(scus, but the pale straw-coloured occipital crest is 

 much more developed (about 2-5 inches long) and the entire 

 brownish-black underparts are finely streaked with white, each 

 feather having a narrow white shaft-stripe. The base of the 

 culmen and sides of the forehead are covered with warty caruncu- 

 lations. Tail composed of 22 feathers. Iris light jellow ; bill 

 yellow, sides and tip of both mandibles red ; pouch black with blue 

 stripes ; legs and feet slate-colour. Total length about 60 inches, 

 culmen 14-16-2, wing 22-7, tail 6-5, tarsus 3 6. 



The immature bird passes through similar changes of plumage 

 to those already described under P. fuscus. One of the birds from 

 Valparaiso is exceptionally large — culmen 15-7 inches, wing 24"5. 



According to MS. notes kindly supplied by Mr. E. W. Gates, 

 " A fine adult in the Paris Museum, probably a male, measures : 

 culmen 14-2 inches, wing 24, tarsus 3-4 ; and a nearly adult female, 

 culmen 13-3 inches, wing 23-5, tarsus 3'4." 



Hub, Pacific coast of South America from Peru to Central Chili. 



a. 2 imm. sk. Payta, Peru, Jan. {Admiral Salvin-Godman ColL 



A. H. Markhain). 



