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Family PELICANID^E. 

 119. Pelecanus fuscus Linnaeus. 



Pelecanus fuscus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 215. — Frantzius, Jour, 

 fiir Orn., 1869, 379 (C. R.). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 

 132 (C. R.). — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXVI, 1898, 475 

 (Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, III, 1901, 142, part. 



■Carnegie Museum : Mouth of Matina River, Nov. 16, 1907 (Car- 

 riker). One skin. 



A common bird all along the Caribbean coast, especially about the 

 mouths of the larger rivers, where they can almost always be seen in 

 long lines, flying out to sea in the morning and returning in the even- 

 ing, or perched about on the drift washed up on the beach. 



120. Pelecanus californicus Ridgway. 



Pelecanus califomicus Ridgway, Water-Birds of N. Amer., II, 1884, 143. 



Pelecanus fuscus Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 405 (La Palma de 

 Nicoya).— Cherrie, Expl. Zool. en C. R., 1891-2, 1893, 57 (along sea-shore 

 off Rio Grande de Terraba). * 



In 1907 I saw numerous birds around Puntarenas and all along down 

 the coast to the Rio Grande de Terraba, where they were very numer- 

 ous about the mouths of the delta of that river. 



Messrs. Salvin and Godman in the Biologia take a rather unusual 

 position in regard to the validity of this species, for, after saying that 

 it had been separated from P. fuscus by Mr. Ridgway and . other 

 American ornithologists on account of the color of the gular pouch dur- 

 ing the breeding season, they take the statement of a Mr. Alvin Seale, 

 a Californian collector, that this color varies in the Californian bird 

 from yellow to dusky, and hence can not be a stable character. On 

 this authority they place P. californicus under the synonymy of P. 

 fuscus. 



Family CATHARTID^E. 

 i2i. Sarcoramphus papa (Linnseus). 



(Native name " Rey de los Zopilotes.'') 



Vultur papa LiNN/EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 1766, 122. 



Cathartes papa Sharpk, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., I, 1874, 22. — Boucard, P. Z. S. ? 



1878,45. (Seen at San Mateo. ) 

 ■Gvpcigus papa Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 127 (C. R.). — 



Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVI, 1893, 522 (Rio Frio). — Under- 



