WHITE FELIGAlt. 137 



PALMIPEDES. 



Family PELECANIBjE. f Bonaparte.) 



Genus Pelecanijs. (Linnmus.) 



WHITE PELICAN. 



Pelecanus onocratulus. 



Pelecanus onocratulus, LlNN^us. 



" roseus, Eversman. 



" minor, RtJPPELL. 



Pelican blanc. Of the French. 



Ge?neiner pelikan, Of the Germans. 



Pellicano, Savi. 



Specific Characters. — The eye is placed in a large naked patch, which is 

 broad at the base of the beak, where the feathers of the forehead form 

 one point; tarsi long; legs livid. Plumage rose colour. Length from five 

 to six feet, and sometimes larger. 



The White or Common Pelican, or The Pelican of authors, 

 inhabits in Europe the same localities as those mentioned for the 

 Dalmatian Pelican. It lias occurred also, but accidentally, in France, 

 Italy, and Sicily. A young subject was shot by M. Hollandre on the 

 4th. of October, 1838, in the pond of Fourligny, in the Department 

 of Moselle, and is recorded in the "Faune de la Moselle," p. 191. 

 Degland. records the capture of one in June, 1849, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Guete, and three others near Libourne, in the Department . 

 of the Gironde, which he supposes were flying to the grounds in 

 which they ordinarily lived, and which were then the theatre of war. 

 Mr. W. H. Simpson (''Ibis," vol. iii., p. SQQ,) describes what must 

 have been a magnificent sight, namely, a flock of Pelicans, which he 

 supposed were of this species, numbering several thousands, flying 



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