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bloody marks, as if they had cost a severe effort to lay. The old birds, when disturbed by our 

 approach, flapped off heavily and began soaring about above us. It is wonderful to see the ease 

 and grace with which they fly when once fairly on the wing, mounting up with hardly a motion 

 of the wings until almost out of sight, and soaring round and round like Vultures." 



Eggs of this Pelican in my own collection are white, the surface being chalky and rough ; 

 and, like those of Pelecanus onocrotahis, most of them are marked with blood. In size they vary 

 from 3f£ by 2^ to 3J| by 2^ inches. 



The specimen figured is one alive in the Zoological Gardens, at Regent's Park ; and the one 

 described is in the collection of Canon Tristram. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



E Mm. H. B. Tristram, 

 a, ad. Limacol Marshes, Cyprus, 1863. 



E Mus. Brit. Reg. 

 a, ad. Southern Europe. 



