3B'8 PELECANIDa!. 



Genius PELEGANUS, Linnaus. 



PELECANUS CONSPICILLATUS,, Temminck 

 Austraiian Pelican. 

 Gould, Handbh. Bds. AusL, Vol. ii., sp. 651, p. 486. 



This species is universally dispersed over the whole of Australia. 

 They construct large nests of sticks and aquatic herbage, often 

 placed close together on the top of inaccessible rocky islands off the 

 coast, or on some of the islets in our large inland lakes. The eggs 

 two in number for a sitting, are of a dirty yellowish-white, thickly 

 coated with lime, and varying considerably in their size and form. 

 Specimens in the Dobroyde Collection taken by the late Mr. Si 

 White of the Reed Beds, South Australia, vary from swollen, to 

 elongated ovals. I give the measurements of three of them : — 

 length (A) 3-34 x 2-31 inches ; (B) 3-59 x 2-2 inches; (C) 3-99 

 X 2-25 inches. 



An average specimen in my own collection taken at the Gippsland 

 Lakes, Victoria,, measures 3-38 inches in length by 2-2 inches in 

 breadth. 



Hab. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 

 Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 

 Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 

 South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, 

 West' and South- West Australia, South Coast New Guinea. 

 (Ramsay.) 



