162 BRITISH BIRDS. WITH THEIR NESTS AND EGGS 
are long and pointed. The legs are not set so far back as in the Phalacrocoracide. 
The Gannets agree with the last mentioned family in the slight—even slighter— 
development of the throat-pouch (which is naked); in the nostrils being closed in 
the adult, though patent in the young; and in their eggs being rough, chalky, and 
unspotted. Although the Sz/ide have but a small throat-pouch, their gullet is 
capable of great distention, so that they are able to swallow fishes—on which they 
almost exclusively feed—of considerable size. 
There are no representatives of the restricted family Pelecanide now to be 
found in England, nor have there been any authentic records in recent times of 
the occurrence in this country, of any which had not escaped from confinement. 
In 1868, however, Professor Newton exhibited to the Zoological Society of London 
the humerus (wing-bone) of a Pelican, found in the peat of the Cambridgeshire 
fens; and again, in 1871, he exhibited a second wing-bone in that year, found buried 
in Feltwell Fen, Norfolk, ‘thus proving the former existence of the bird in England 
at no very distant period.’ The fact of the former bone having belonged to a young 
bird, ‘‘ points to its having been bred in this country. It is possible, from its large 
size, that it belonged to Pelecanus crispus,’ which now inhabits S. Europe and 
N.E. Africa. 
HENRY O. FORBES. 
ANNA FORBES. 
