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PALMIPEDES. 



Fa7nily PELECANIDJEl. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Pelecanus. fLimiceus.J 



WHITE PELICAN. 



Pelecanus onocratulus. 



Pelecanus onocratulus, Linnaeus. 



" roseus, Etersman. 



" minor, Euppell. 



Pelecan blanc. Of the Feench. 



Gemelner pelikan, Oe the Germans. 



Pellicano, Savi. 



Specific Characters. — The eye is placed in a large naked patcli, 

 wMch. is broad at the base of the beak, where the feathers of 

 the forehead form one point; tarsi long; legs vivid. Plumage 

 rose colour. Length from five to six feet, and sometimes longer. 



The White or Common Pelican, or The Pelican of 

 authors, inhabits in Europe the same localities as those 

 mentioned for the Dalmatian Pelican. It has occurred 

 also, but accidentally, in France, Italy, and Sicily. A 

 young subject was shot by M. Hollandre on the 4th. 

 of October, 1838, in the pond of Fourligny, in the 

 Department of Moselle, and is recorded in his "Eaune 

 de la Moselle," p. 191. Degland records the capture 



