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Pelecanus erythrorhynchos GMELIN. White Pelican. [125.] 



Pelecanus erythrorhynchos GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 571. (Hudson 

 Bay, and New York.) 



RANGE. Temperate North America. Breeds from southern 

 British Columbia, Great Slave Lake, and southwestern Keewatin to 

 Manitoba (formerly southern Minnesota and South Dakota), Utah 

 and southern California; winters from southern California, the Gulf 

 States, Florida, and Cuba south to western Mexico and Costa Rica; 

 casual east in migration to the Atlantic coast, north to New Bruns- 

 wick. 



SUBGENUS LEPTOPELICANUS REICHENBACH. 



Leptopelicanus REICHENBACH, Syst. Avium, 1852, vii. Type, by orig. 

 desig., Pelecanus fuscus GMELIN = P. occidentalis LINNAEUS. 



Pelecanus occidentalis LINN^US. Brown Pelican. [126.] 



Pelecanus onocrotalus /? occidentalis LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 

 215. (West Indies.) 



RANGE. Gulf coast of United States and Atlantic coast of Central 

 and South America. Breeds from Florida and Louisiana south to 

 Brazil; casual in North Carolina; accidental in Wyoming, Nebraska, 

 Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Nova Scotia. 



Pelecanus californicus RIDGWAY. California Brown Pelican. [127.] 



Pelecanus (fuscust) californicus RIDGWAY, in Water Birds N. A., II, 1884, 

 143. (La Paz, Lower California.) 



RANGE. Pacific coast, from southern British Columbia to the 

 Galapagos and Ecuador, east to Nevada. 



FAMILY FREGATID^E. MAN-O'-WAR-BIRDS. 

 GENUS FREGATA LACEPEDE. 



Fregata LACEPEDE, Tableaux Ois., 1799, 15. No species mentioned but 

 obviously based on Pelecanus aquilus LINNAEUS. 



