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northwards in the Dobrudsha. Lord Lilford ("Ibis," vol. ii., p. 355,) 

 says that the White Pelicans pass in enormous numbers over Corfu 

 southwards in November, and that a few remain about the coasts of 

 Epirus throughout the winter. 



Count Miihle says, — ''This Pelican is also very rare in Greece. 

 I believe that it comes there to breed, but is only seen singly now 

 and then in winter. Among all my specimens of Pelicans I have 

 only one of this species, which was killed in April in the lake of 

 Missolonghi. It was a female, and about to lay, as a mature egg 

 was taken out of its body." Dr. Lindermayer says that it is much 

 rarer in Greece than P. crtspus, only a solitary one being seen in the 

 large lakes now and then. He does not speak of its breeding there 

 with certainty. It is found, according to Captain Loche, in Algeria, 

 but only accidentally. In Egypt, the Rev. E. C. Taylor says, "Ibis," 

 vol. i., p. 54, "This magnificent bird is tolerably numerous, and 

 generally distributed. It is usually to be seen standing on sandbanks 

 in the bed of the river, and is a characteristic feature of Nile 

 scenery." Dr. G. Hartlaub includes it among the birds of West 

 Africa, and gives Senegambia, on the authority of Lichtenstein, and 

 Mozambique, on the authority of M. Verreaux, as localities, ("Orni- 

 thologie Westafricas," p. 259.) 



Doderlein (op. cit.) says: — "The passage of this bird through 

 Modena, though uncertain and irregular, is not at all rare. In par- 

 ticular in the valleys of Reggiano and GuastuUesse, where in 1844 

 four individuals were captured out of a flock of six or seven (Tognoli), 

 and succeeded by five more in 1846. In the museum of the University 

 of Modena three specimens are preserved, one of which was killed 

 in the spring of 1843 in the valley of Porto-Vecchio, and another 

 was given by Count Pietro Gundini, which had been taken in the 

 south of Nierandola, and the third more recently from Nonantola. 

 Tognoli also had a beautiful individual killed in Reggiano, with its 

 feathers preserving quite their beautiful rosy tint. 



"In Sicily it occurs accidentally. Flocks of them may be often 

 seen in the marshes of Catania and Lentini, where, according to II 

 Patti, they stop for a short time with their young in the winter 

 months during a passage, but not periodically. The same birds are 

 found during the period of passage, but more rarely, in the waters 

 of Camerana, Terra-Nova, Trapani, Mazzara, and even at Mondello, 

 near Palermo, some of which are taken by local hunters, and may be 

 seen in the ordinary collections of the island. Benoit describes the 

 capture of a young bird in the lake of Faro, near Messina, and of 

 five other adults in 1834 near Olivieri. Another male, killed more 



