142 PELBCANIDJE. 



1. Felecanns fiascns. 



The Pelican of America, Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds,^ ii. p. 93, t. 93 '. 

 Pelecanusfuseus,Gmei.Sjst. Nat. i. p. 570%- Scl. & Salv. Il»9, 1859, p. 233'; Taylor, Ibis, 



1860, p. 316 * ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 13 ' ; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 316 ' ; 



BuU. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 50' ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 373 ' ; Salv. Ibis, 1864, 



pp. 874', 377^°; 1865, p. 198"; 1889, p. 376"; v. Frantz. J. f. Ora. 1869, p. 379"; 



Grayson, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xiv. p. 302 " ; Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 235 " ; Nutting, 



Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 405 ", vi. p. 378 " ; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 169 " ; 



Stone, Pr. Philad. Acad. 1890, p. 203"; Richm. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 531"; 



A. O. TJ. Check-1. N. Amer. Birds, p. 46 ''^ ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxvi. 



p. 475 ". 

 Pelecanus thagus, Licht. Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog. p. 3 (nee Molina) " ; Cab. J. f . Orn. 1863, 



p. 59 ". 

 Pelecanus califomicus, Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. ii. p. 143 " ; Jouy, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



xvi. p. 788 =' ; A. O. U. Check-1. N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 46 " ; OgUvie Grant, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 478 '' ; Nelson, N. Amer. Fauna, no. 14, p. 32 '°. 



PtU. Mem. Pallide canescens, plumis anguste nigro limbatis, scapularibus et tectricibus minimis latins marginatis ; 

 dorsi plumis medialiter argenteseenti-albis, late nigro lanceolatim marginatis ; remigibus nigria, secun- 

 dariis extus canescentibus ; rectricibus canis, intus fuscioribus ; pileo, regione parotica et nucha cristata 

 pallide stramineis, coUo reliquo plumato albo, plumis rigidis marginem imam versus stramineo tinctis ; 

 praepectore et corpora reliquo subtus fumoso-brunneis, lateribus albo lineatim striatis ; subalaribus et 

 axillaribus medialiter albis, late schistaceo-brunneo marginatis : rostro griseo vel brunnescente, coccineo 

 irregulariter notato, apicem versus nigro ; regione nuda orbitali cserulea ; gutture nudo sordide virescenti- 

 brunneo, oKvascenti-brunneo, vel etiam pnrpurascente ; pedibus nigris ; iride flavescente. Long, tota 

 circa 41"0, alse 19-5, caudse 4-7, culm. 12-0, tarsi 2-9. (Descr. exempl. adult, ex Ins. Cozumel. 

 Mus. nostr.) 



$ mari adulto similis, sed pauUo minor. 



iS pill. nupt. coUo postico usque ad nucham velutino castaneo-brunneo, utrinque albo vel pallide stramineo 

 marginato. 



5 juv. Slagis brunnescens, plumis conspicue brunneo marginatis ; pilei et colli plumis brunneis ; prsepectore 

 et corpore reliquo subtus albis, lateribus schistaceo-brunneis, plumis albo medialiter lineatis. 



Hab. Coasts of Tropical akd Subtropical America, on the Atlantic side as far 

 north as N. Carolina, accidental in Illinois (P. fuscus) ^i, and on the Pacific side 

 from Burrard Inlet, British Columbia, to the Galapagos Is. (P. califomicus) ^''. — 

 Rbvillagigedo Is., Socorro I. {Grayson ^^); 'Mexico {Deppe & Schiede^^ ^^), 

 Guaymas {Jouy 2^), Mazatlan {BiscJioff ^, Grayson ^), Ventosa Bay, Tehuantepec 

 {Sumichrast'^), Santa Ana, Vera Cruz [Ferrari-Perez^^), Yucatan, 'Piogreso {Stone 

 & Baker i^), Cozumel I. {Gaumer ^'^) ; British Honduras, Tumeff Lagoon, Saddle 

 Cay (0. S.^ 1") . Guatemala, Chiapam {0. S. ^^) ; Honduras, Fonseca Bay {Taylor ^ *) ; 

 Nicaragua, Greytown, Blewfields {Richnond 2°), San Juan del Sur {Nutting i^) ; 

 Costa Eica, Gulf of Nicoya {Nutting ^^) ; Panama {M'Leannan ^ ®, Kellett & 

 Wood 28). — Coast op Guiana ; West India Is.^s 28. 



The western form of the Brown Pelican (P. califomicus) has been separated by 



