634 SURGEON F. DAY ON INDIAN FISHES. [Nov. 7, 



de Lisboa, 1871, no. xi. p. 174), in discussing this question, is like- 

 wise favourable to regarding them as distinct, "si les deux rangs 

 de taches brunes regulierement imprimees sur la mandibule supe- 

 rieure se retrouvent constamment chez les individus de Malacca, de 

 l'lnde, de Cochinchine, de l'Asia enfin, tandis qu'elles ne se pre- 

 sentent jamais chez ceux d'Afrique." 



Besides the skins of P. jMlippensis in Capt. Beavan's collection 

 from Burmah, of which 1 have already spoken*, I have recently 

 examined two obtained by the late Dr. Maingay in Malacca, one in 

 Mr. Swinhoe's collection from Swatow, China, and one from India 

 in the Strasburg Museum. Iu all these specimens the above- 

 mentioned dark spots on the upper mandible (see figs. 2 & .3, p. 633) 

 are well developed, while nothing of the kind is visible in our living 

 examples of P. rufescens, either adult or young. 1 am therefore 

 still more confirmed in my view that the African and Asiatic birds 

 must be kept distinct. 



There appear to me therefore to be now ten well-determined 

 species of Pelecanus, viz. : — 



tl. P. onocrotalus, from S. Europe and N.E. Africa. 



t2. P. minor, from S. Europe, Africa, and S. Asia. 



3. P. sharpii, from W. Africa. 



f4. P. crispus, from S. Europe aud N.E. Africa. 



f5. P. rufescens, from Africa. 



6. P. philippensis, from S. Asia. 



7. P. trachyrhynchus, from Mexico and Western N. America. 

 t8. P. conspicillatus, from Australia. 



9. P.fuscus, from Central America. 

 10. P. molinee, from-Chili. 



Besides these, I have seen two specimens of Pelicans in the Stras- 

 burg Museum, which appear to me (as likewise to its excellent 

 custos Dr. Schimper) to indicate the existence in the highlands of 

 Columbia of an undescribed species of the genus allied to P. fuscus 

 and P. molinee, but peculiar for its long, solid, and very much com- 

 pressed beak. These specimens are both in immature plumage, 

 and are labelled as having been received from Bogota in 1847. It 

 would be of great interest to discover the adult of this Pelican. 



2. Remarks on Indian Fishes. 

 By Francis Day, F.Z.S., F.L.S. 



[Received September 27, 1871.] 



Having only just obtained the ' Zoological Record' for 1869, 1 have 

 been ignorant up to the present time that the identification of several 

 species of fishes made by me in the ' Proceedings' of this Society 



* Anted, 18G8, p. 269. 



t Of these species we have examples now living in the Society's collection. 



