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Elanus caeruleus. BLACK-WINGED KITE. 



FalGO cseruleus Desfontaines, Hist, de FAc. Roy. des 

 Sciences, Paris, for 1787, 1789, p. 503 : Algiers. 



Elanus cseruleus (Desfont.) ; STiarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. 1874, 

 p. 336; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 100; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 338. 



An example is said to have been shot in co. Meath, 

 Ireland, in 1862, by Sir John Dillon. 



The Black-winged Kite inhabits Africa, including Mada- 

 gascar, from Algeria to Cape Colony, also southern Asia to 

 Burma ; it is rare in southern Europe, but is said to have 

 occurred in Belgium and northern France. 



Order PELECANIFORMES. 



Family PELECANID,E. 



Pelecaims onocrotalus. WHITE PELICAN. 



Pelecanus onocrotalus Linnwus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 132 : 

 Africa. 



Pelecanus onocrotalus Linn. ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 107 ; 

 Ogilvie- Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. 1898, p. 462. 



An example, recorded by Sir Thomas Browne from Norfolk 

 in 1663, was supposed to have escaped from the park at 

 St. James's in London ; but that the species once inhabited 

 Great Britain is proved by the finding of its bones in semi- 

 fossil condition in the fens of the eastern counties (cf. Newton, 

 P. Z. S. 1868, p. 2, 1871, p. 702). 



The White Pelican now inhabits southern Europe and 

 northern Africa, extending eastwards through Asia to northern 

 India. It rarely strays to central Europe and Scandinavia. 



