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for the island, where it evidently is not common. Unlike P. auritiis 

 floridanus, it is wont to frequent fresh as well as salt water. Speci- 

 mens are indistinguishable from typical examples from Mexico. Its 

 distribution in the West Indies is apparently restricted to Cuba, the 

 Isle of Pines, and Watlings Island of the Bahaman group. 



6. Pelecanus occidentalis Linnaeus. Brown Pelican. 



Pelecanus fuscus Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 427 (Nueva Gerona, fide 

 Gundlach). — Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 85 (I. of Pines, in geog. distr.). 

 — Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 185 ("south coast"). 



''Brown Pelican" Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 10 (Nuevas River), 13 (I. of 

 Pines); XXX, 1913, 131 ("south coast"). 



Pelecanus occidentalis Read, I. of Pines News, VI, Apr. 25, 1914 (Caleta Grande). 



Six specimens: Caleta Grande. 



Four different plumages are represented. There are two in juvenal 

 dress (November 26), with white under parts and grayish heads and 

 necks. Two others taken at the same time are obviously immature, 

 showing the neck-pattern of the adult in brownish gray instead of 

 chestnut, the under parts, however, being dark-colored. The series 

 available for study being insufficient to illustrate the sequence of 

 plumages in this species, I am a little uncertain as to the exact age of 

 these two examples, but believe them to be in first nuptial dress, 

 assuming that the species breeds in the second year, or, if it does not,, 

 in a plumage which corresponds to this in time. Both of these speci- 

 mens show fresh gray feathers mixed with the worn brown ones char- 

 acteristic of the juvenal plumage, the moult affecting the rectrices- 

 also. There are two spring specimens (April 18 and 23), one of whicha 

 has the back of the neck chestnut, while in the other the head and 

 neck all around are white. This latter corresponds to the descriptiort 

 of the adult in winter plumage, and compares favorably with non- 

 breeding specimens from Costa Rica and Colombia. Mr. Ogilvie- 

 Grant (Catalogue Birds British Museum, XXVI, 1898, 478), however^ 

 says that " nearly mature " birds " do not assume the dark velvety- 

 brown neck in the breeding-season, these parts remaining white like 

 those of the adult in winter-plumage." But, if I am correct as to the 

 stage of plumage represented by the immature birds described 

 above, it would be strange indeed to find them assuming the pattern 

 of the adult for the first breeding-season, only to lose it for the second. 

 It is well known that this species has an extensive breeding-season, 

 nesting along the Cuban coast, according to Gundlach, from June to 



