578 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PELECANUS. ([Nov. 25, 
Family PELECANID. 
Char.—Feet small. The four toes on a level, connected together 
by a more or less indented web. 
Subfamily PeLecaninz. 
Size large; body heavy; head with or without occipital crest. 
Genus PELECANUS. 
Bill very long; sac extending the entire length; under mandible 
wider than the upper at the base. Upper mandible terminating in 
a sharp curved nail. 
Analytical Table. 
A. Bare loral space extending to the mandibles. 
1. P. onocrotalus. 
2. P. minor. 
3. P. gavanicus. 
6'. Lower mandible feathered at base ............... 4. P. erythrorhynchus. 
[ 5. P. erispus. 
. P. rufescens. 
7. P. fuscus. 
a’. Feathers on the forehead extending to a point 
On Ghee Mon yc. necicecgadtete ss ceawacaseenaae 
c', Feathers of the forehead forming a concave line 
at the base of the culmen. Mandibles free 
Of feathers i Zoku Ssicais sates ctceSasteoy racsunes ; 
8. P. moline. 
B. Bare loral space separated from the bill by a row of 
foathora a 5. Lin aus sochoecbaseetes setae ds ates ve havea 9. P. australis. 
Description of the Genera and Species. 
Subfamily PELECANIN2. 
PeLecanus, Linnzeus. 
Pelecanus, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 132 (1758) (auct.). 
Onocrotalus, Briss. Ornithologie (1760), tom. vi. p. 519, type 
P. onocrotalus; Wagler nec Briss. Isis (1832), p. 1233, type P. 
moline. 
Catoptropelicanus, Reich., type P. conspicillatus. 
Onocrotalus, Reich., nec Briss. nec Wagl., type P. crispus. 
Cyrtopelicanus, Reich. MS., type P. erythrorhynchus. 
Leptopelicanus, Reich. MS., type P. fuscus. 
Largest in size of all the birds of this family. Head long, oval, 
flattened. Neck long and thick. Wings long, secondaries exceeding 
the primaries when the wing is folded. ‘Tail moderate, rounded. 
Tarsi short; toes long, webs broad, not indented. Bill very long ; 
gular sac attached to the crura of the lower mandible for its entire 
length. Nostrils in adults hidden. 
This genus, instituted by Linnzeus at a much earlier date even 
than the one selected as a starting-point for this monograph, com- 
prises various species of birds which cannot be confounded with 
any others known, and which, according to the views of the present 
writer, do not present any characters not common to all, which can 
be considered of sufficient importance to separate any of the number 
from the remainder into a different genus, as has been of late years 
