1. PELECANrS. 483 



base ; legs and feet orange-red. Total length about 60 iaches, 

 culraen 13-5-14-5, wing 24, tail 7, tarsus 4-S. 



Ill hreedinij-plumaye a thick crest of narrow pointed white 

 feathers covers the occiput and nape ; and a patch of feathers on the 

 chest and the lesser wing-coverts are lanceolate and of a pale 

 lemon-yellow. An elevated horny ridge is developed along the middle 

 of the terminal half of the culmeu. 



In noa-bree'liw/-phimage the horny appendage on the culmen is 

 shed, as well as the crest. 



Younger examples resemble the adult, but the lesser wing-coverts 

 are brown, margined with sandy white. 



Hah. Temperate Xorth America, ranging north to about 50^ N. 

 latitude, and south in winter to Central America. 



a. Ad.sk. North America. H. Golding, Esq. [P.]. 



b-d. Ad. sk. North America. Piircha.sed. 



e,f. Imm. sk. 49th Parallel. N. American Boun- 



dary Comm. [P.]. 

 (J. Ad. sk. Cuyahoga Pt., Ohio. Prof. J. P. Kirtland 



[P.]. 

 h. 2. c? ad. sk. Corpus Christi, Texas, Dec. 20 Salvin-Godman CoD. 



[F. B. Armstrong), 

 k, I. d ad. et Huamuchal, Guateraala, Feb. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 $ imm. sk. (O. Salvin). 



9. Pelecanus conspicillatus. 



New Holland Pelican, Lath. Gen. Hist. x. p. 402 (1824). 



Pelecanus conspicillatus, Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. 118 [no. 276] (1824) : 

 Less. Traite erOrn. p. 602 (1831) ; Drapiez, Diet. Sei. Nat. viii. 

 p. 385 (1842j ; G. R. Gray, List of B. pt. iii. p. 189 (1844) ; id. 

 Gen. B. iii. p. 668 (1845) ; Gould, B. Ausfr. vii. pi. 74 (1847) ; 

 Bonap. Consp. Av. ii. p. 161 (18.35) ; EUei/, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 28 

 [N. W. Australia : breeding in March and April] ; Schlet/. Mus. Pays- 

 Bas, vi. Pelecani, p. 3G (1863) ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 48G 

 (1865) ; Bamsai/, Ibis, 1866, p. 335 ; Elliot, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 590 : 

 Biggies, Orn. AuUr. p. 123, pi. (1870) ; G. R. Gray, Hand-l. B. 

 iii. p. 130 (1871) ; v. Pelzebi, Ibis, 1873, p. 53 [? tvpe]; Rainsay. 

 P. Z. S. 1877, p. 348 ; Diy>/les, B. of Austr. ii. p. 119, pi. (1877) ; 

 D'Alb. Ibis, 1877, p. 372 i Fly R.] ; Sahad. Orn. Pap. iii. p. 414 

 (1882) [Kat;iu P.: Port Moresby]; Dubois, Bull. Mus. Belg. ii. 

 p. 10 (1883); Ramsay, Tabl. L. Austr. B. p. 25 (1888); North, 

 Nests 4- Eygs B. Austr. p. .368 (18>>9) ; Walker, Ibis, 1892, p. 257 

 [Adele Is., N.W. Austraha]; le Souef Ibis, 1895, p. 423 [Alba- 

 tross I.]; Reichenou; J.f O. 1897, p. 216 [German New Guinea], 



Pelecanus australis, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. i. p. 113 

 (1825). 



Catoptropehcanus conspicillatus, Reichenb. Natiirl. Sust. Vdg. p. vii 

 (1853). 



Adult. Naked space round the eye surrounded by feathers. 

 General colour of plumage pure white ; quills and their coverts, 

 scapulars, outer row of lesser wing-coverts, sides of rump, shorter 

 upper tail-coverts, and tail-feathers black ; the primaries with the 



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