ARBEIDa;. 107 



[Genus T'ELECATSJJS, Linnmus, S.N. i. p. 215 (1766). 



PeUcdnus = n-eXe/cotvos, a Byzantine form of nekeKav, a bird known to the 

 Greeks, a Woodpecker, Aristophanes, Av. 884, 1155 ; the Pelican, Aristotle, 

 H. A. 9, 10, 2. From veKeKvs = an axe. 



Pelecanus onocrotalus. Wsite Pelicajs: 



Pelecanus Onocrotalus, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 215. 



Pelecanus onocrotalus, Naum. xi. p. 150; Gray, p. 247; 

 Dresser, vi. p. 193. 



Onoerofalm = dvoKporaXos, the Pelican, in Pliny ; from ovos = an ass, and 

 KporaXov = a rattle. 



Montagu mentions one having been shot at Horsey Fen in 

 May 1663, which was at the time supposed to be one of the 

 king^s Pelicans escaped from St. James's (Orn. Diet. Suppl. 

 fol. p. 3, 1813). It inhabits South-eastern Europe and the 

 Ethiopian and Indian Regions. Of late years its bones have 

 been more than once exhumed from the fens of Norfolk {cf. 

 Newton, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 3; 1871, p. 702) .J 



Order HERODIONES. 



Family ARDEID^. 

 Genus ARDEA, Brisson, Ornith. v. p. 392 (1760) . 



Ardia = the Heron, in Virgil, Qeorg. i. 364 ; cognate with the classical Greek 

 epwSws, of which the supposed primitiye form, paiSios, occurs in Hipponax 

 (about 546 b.c.) ; old Norse arta = a Teal. 



Ardea cinerea. Heron. 



Ardea cinerea, Lmra«MS, S. N. i. p. 286 (1766). 



Ardea cinerea, Naum. ix. p. 24, xiii. p. 255 ; Macff. iv. p. 440; 



Hewitson, p. 310; Ch-ay, p. 145; Yarr. ed. 2, ii. p. 508; 



id. ed. 3, ii. p. 537; Gould, iv. pi. 20; Hurting, p. 55; 



Dresser, vi. p. 207. 

 The Common Heron, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 444. 

 Cmerea = ash-coloured, from cinis = ashes. 



