the Imperial Collection at Vienna. 53 



Sale Cat. n. 1840, in bad state ; was marked in the collection 

 with the locality New Holland ? 



The late Joh. Natterer, in his manuscript materials for a 

 Synopsis of Birds (23rd January, 1840), says of this bird: — 

 "A specimen, in very bad preservation, with only five tail- 

 feathers — on one side three, on the other two, very much gra- 

 duated ; the total number of rectrices is therefore unknown. 

 The white tail-feathers, and the uniformly brown upperside 

 of the wings, and the upper part of the back, show conclu- 

 sively that the bird is an old one. It was determined as 

 Pelecanus piscator, from which it is very different in the fol- 

 lowing points. The skin of the throat is feathered forward, 

 the feathers forming a point in it; the upper back, three 

 fourths of the greater scapulars, upper and nearly all under 

 wing-coverts obscure greyish brown." 



In his manuscript Joh. Natterer designated the bird Dys- 

 porus, without a specific name; the name " plumigula" is 

 found on the label of the specimen and in the catalogue of 

 the collection, and was probably given by Josef Natterer, the 

 brother of the traveller, who also held an appointment in the 

 Imperial Museum. Surely a species based on a single speci- 

 men, in bad condition, must rest very doubtful ; but it is 

 perhaps not useless to direct attention to further investiga- 

 tions on the point. 



112. Graculus punctatus (Sparrm.). (107.) 

 Crested Shag, Cook's last Voyage (1783), i. 151. 

 Spotted Shag, Latham, Gen. Synops. vi. (1785) 602. 18, 



t. 104. 



Pelecanus punctatus, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, i. (1786) t. 10; 

 Lath. Ind. On. ii. 889. 19. 



Pelecanus ncevius, Gmel. Syst. i. 574. 



The bird from the Mus. Leverianum, undoubtedly Latham's 

 type, being in a bad state, was not inserted in the collection. 



113. Pelecanus conspicillatus, Temm. (282.) 

 New-Holland Pelican, Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 402. 

 Pelecanus conspicillatus, Temm. PI. Col. 276. 

 Pelecanus australis, Stepli. Gen. Zool. xiii. i. 113. 



