4 STEGANOPODES 
ro. Pelecanus fuscus var. californica (Ridgway). 
Pelecanus fuscus (part.) auct. plur. 
Pelecanus californicus Ridgway in Baird, Brewer & Ridgway Water-Birds N. Amer. 
Vol. 2, p. 143 (1884) ; idem The Auk, 1886, p. 267. 
Pacific coasts of N. 
America,southward to 
Panama and the Ga- 
lapagos Islands. 
11. Pelecanus fuscus var. molinz Gray. Pacific coasts of south 
Pelecanus thagus, auct. plur., nec Molina (1). America to Central 
Pelecanus fuscus (part.) auct. plur. Chili. 
Pelecanus moline Gray, List of Birds. Vol. 3, p. 189 (1844); Elliot, P. Z.S., 1869, 
p. 588, pl. 44. 
Pelecanus barbieri Oustalet, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1878, p. 208. 
Pelecanus fuscus var, moling Dubois, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Belg. Vol. 2, p. 11 (1883). 
(1) Pelecanus tagus of Molina is a bird existing only in imagination (see the extraordinary descrip- 
tion given by Molina in the german translation, Leipzig. 1786, pp. 212, 213 and 305). 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 
Fig. 1. Pelecanus sharpei, Barboza du Bocage. 
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— onocrotalus, Linnzeus (head). 
philippensis var. rufescens, Gmelin (head). 
Ae _ — Gmelin (head). 
5 — fuscus, Gmelin (head). 
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(All figures are of 1/6 natural size except figs. 2 and 3 who are greater.) 
Brussels, 15th April 1907. 
