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[Genus PELECANUS, Linneus, S.N. i. p. 215 (1766). 



Pelecanus = ireXeicavos, a Byzantine form of TreXeicav, a bird known to the 

 Greeks, a Woodpecker, Aristophanes, Av. 884, 1155 ; the Pelican, Aristotle, 

 H. A. 9, 10, 2. From TreXe/cvs = an axe. 



Pelecanus onocrotalus. WHITE PELICAN. 

 Pelecanus Onocrotalus, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 215. 



Pelecanus onocrotalus, Naum. xi. p. 150; Gray, p. 247; 

 Dresser, vi. p. 193. 



Onocrotalus = ovoKporaXos, the Pelican, in Pliny ; from ovos = an ass, and 

 KporoXov = a rattle. 



Montagu mentions one having been shot at Horsey Fen in 

 May 1663, which was at the time supposed to be one of the 

 king's Pelicans escaped from St. James's (Orn. Diet. Suppl. 

 fol. p. 3, 1813). It inhabits South-eastern Europe and the 

 Ethiopian and Indian Regions. Of late years its bones have 

 been more than once exhumed from the fens of Norfolk (cf. 

 Newton, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 2; 1871, p. 702).] 



Order HEEODIONES. 



Family ABDEID^E. 

 Genus ARDEA, Brisson, Ornith. v. p. 39/ (1760). 



Ardea the Heron, in Virgil, G-eorg. i. 364 ; cognate with the classical Greek 

 epwflios, of which the supposed primitive form, pwtfios, occurs in Hippouax 

 (about 546 B.C.) ; old Norse arta a Teal. 9, 



Ardea cinerea. HEEON. 



Ardeacinerea, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 236 (1766) . 



Ardea cinerea, Naum. ix. p. 24, xiii. p. 255 ; Macg. iv. p. 440 ; 



Hewitson, p. 310; Gray, p. 145; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 508; 



id. ed. 3, ii. p. 537; Gould, iv. pi. 20; Harting, p. 55 ; 



Dresser, vi. p. 207. 



The Common Heron, Yarf. ed. 1, ii. p. 444. 

 Cmerea = ash-coloured, from aims = ashes. 



