1869.] MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PELECANUS. 379 
attempted. But one species of Pelican seems to have been known 
to Linnzus (the common P. onocrotalus of Europe) at the date of 
the tenth edition of his ‘Systema Avium,’ although two years later 
Brisson enumerates four. The various genera instituted by Reichen- 
bach, as above quoted, do not seem to be founded upon sufficient 
reasons, the characters selected appertaining more to specific than 
generic distinctions. 
PELECANUS ONOCROTALUS. 
Pelecanus onocrotalus, Linn. Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 132 (1758) ; 
Naum. Vég. Deutschl. t. 282. 1 (ad.), 2 (juv.); Bonnat. Eneycl. 
Méthod. Ornith. (1790) p. 42; Lath. Syn. vol. ili. p. 578. sp. 1; 
id. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 882. sp. 1; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 109, t. 12; 
Brehm, Vég. Deutsch. p. 824, t. 40. fig. 1; Roux, Orn. Prov. t. 342 
(juv.); Reich. Syst. Av. pl. 36. figs. 376, 377; Gray, Gen. of Birds, 
il. p. 668. sp.1; Gmel. Syst. Nat.1. pt. 2 (1788), p. 569 ; Bree, Birds 
of Eur. vol. iv. p. 174; Temm. Man. d’Ornith. i. p. 891; Jerd. B. 
of India, vol. iii. p. 854; Brandt, Icon. Animal. Rossic. Nov. (1836) 
p- 44. sp. 1; Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas, 4™° livr. p. 30; Sclat. P. Z.S. 
(1868) p. 264; Licht. Abhandl. Akad. Wiss. Berl. (1838) p. 436, 
t. 3. fig. L; Donnd. Zool. Beitr. vol. ii. pt. 1, 844; Gould, B. of Eur. 
vol. vy. pl. 405? 
Le Pélican, Buff. Plan. Enlum. 87, p. 169, tom. ix. 
Pelecanus roseus, Eversm. in Script. Liter. Imp. Universit. Casa- 
nien. (1835) fascic. ii. p. 369. 
Onocrotalus albus, Brisson, Ornith. (1760) p. 519, tom. vi. 
Pelecanus javanicus, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 
p- 297. n. 1740. 
Occiput with a rather elongated crest during the breeding-season. 
Bare space around the eye diamond-shape behind, and reaching to 
the base of the upper mandible. Gular pouch extending for about 
six inches down the throat. Feathers of head form a distinct point 
upon the forehead. Upper mandible reddish at the base, becoming 
yellowish at the tip, with a line of crimson along the culmen; under 
mandible palered. Pouch and bare space about the eye flesh-colour. 
Primaries and spurious wing black. Occipital crest and the elon- 
gated feathers at the lower part of the neck in front light yellow. 
Rest of plumage white, tinged with rose-colour. Tarsi flesh-colour. 
Tail of eighteen feathers. Length about 5 feet, wing 26 inches, 
tarsus 43 inches, upper mandible 16 inches. 
Hab, Europe and northern part of Africa. Common in Hungary, 
Crimea, Egypt, and Ionian Islands. Accidental in France and Al- 
geria. In West Africa, at Senegambia and Mozambique*. Also in 
Abyssinia. 
The young during the first year are uniform greyish brown, the 
lanceolate feathers of the breast being entirely wanting. The perfect 
plumage is not acquired for some years; and the depth of the rosy 
tint is increased at the breeding-season. 
* Ornithologie Westafrikas, p. 259 (Hartl.). 
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