338 PELECANIDiE : PELICANS. 



England, where, however, its presence now can only 

 be considered accidental, though there are some recent 

 records of its occurrence. The individuals noted by 

 him (Am. Nat., iii, 1870, p. 640) as having visited Nan- 

 tucket Island were later determined to have been Brown 

 Pelicans. Mr. Purdie gives the first recent record of the 

 capture of a White Pelican, at North Scituate, Oct. 6, 

 1876 (Bull. Nutt. Club, ii, Jan. 1877, p. 22). This is 

 probably the first definite modern instance for Massa- 

 chusetts, and the second for New England ; Mr. Board- 

 man's remark, " accidental, in one or two cases," being 

 the only other (Pr. Bost. Soc, ix, 1862, p. 130). There 

 is a New Brunswick case, of one and perhaps two speci- 

 mens (Chamberlain, Bull. Nutt. Club, vii, 1882, p. 106). 



BROWN PELICAN. 



Pelecanus fuscus L. 



Chars. Form like that of the last species. Plumage dark-colored, 

 variegated ; neck of the adult mostly reddish-brown ; head mostly 

 white; bill dark, varied with red ; sac blackish; feet black. Rather 

 smaller than the last. Tail normally 22-feathered; bill without 

 any upright horny process. 



Accidental, New England being entirely beyond the 

 usual range of this species. According to Maynard, 

 " Mr. J. F. Le Baron is confident of having seen two of 

 this species at Ipswich some years ago " (Nat. Guide, 

 1870, p. 149). Allen says that a flock of five Brown 

 Pelicans visited Nantucket a few years before 1870, one 

 of them being shot. Mr. Allen's slip of referring this 

 case to the preceding species is corrected on p. 40 of 

 the extras of his paper in Am. Nat., iii, 1870, p. 640. 

 (See ibid., iv, p. 58.) 



