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outstretched wings. When in the water, it has the habit 

 of submerging its body to such an extent as to leave 

 little more than the neck exposed. 



[Although this Cormorant appears for the most part to frequent 

 inland waters^ it was found breeding, by the late Professor 

 Wahlberg, on the small islands off the coast of Great Namaqua 

 Land ; and specimens which he obtained in nuptial dress from 

 these locahties were described by him under the name of 

 '' Graculus coronatus" in the 'Journ. fiir Orn.^ loc. cit. One 

 of the specimens so named by Wahlberg, and obtained by him 

 from the island of IchaboCj is recorded by Drs. Finsch and 

 Hartlaub {loc. cit.) as being now preserved in the Bremen 

 Museum. 



The following is a translation of Professor Wahlberg^s remarks 

 on the nidification of this species : — 



" Tolerably common on Possession and other islands ; makes 

 a nest of seaweed without much substructure; lays one white 

 egg.^^— Ed.] 



428. Pelecanns minor (Riipp.). Riippell's Pelican. 

 Onocrotalifs minor, Riippell's System. Uebers. pi. 49. 

 Pelecunus ?nitratm, Gumey, in Ibis, 1861, p. 1.35. 

 Pelicanus onocrotalm, Layard's Cat. No. 701. 

 Pelecamis onocrotalus, Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 424. 

 Pelecamis mitratus, Sclater, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 266, fig. 3 



(bead). 

 Pelecamis minor, Elliot, ibid. 1869, p. 580. 



This species is very numerous at Walwich Bay, and is 

 also tolerably common at Sandwich Harbour ; but south 

 of this port its numbers rapidly diminish. On approach- 

 ing Table Bay the Pelican reappears and is abundant in 

 many parts of the Cape seas nearly inshore ; it is also 

 found at Lake Ngami, Lake Onondava, and a few other 

 localities in the interior. 



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