THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 784.— October. 1906. 



PELICANS AS OBSERVED IN EASTERN EUROPE. 



By R. B. Lodge. 



(Plate V.) 



A photogkaphic and collecting expedition to Eastern Europe 

 in search of Pelicans {Pelecanus crispus and P. onocrotalus) and 

 Great White Herons (Ardea alba), in the spring of 1906, proved 

 to be not the least interesting of the expeditions I have made 

 after the rarer birds of Europe. It was successful so far as 

 P. crispus and A. alba, but P. onocrotalus has evaded my 

 search. It was memorable also for several other species met 

 with for the first time, and last but not least, for the great 

 kindness I experienced everywhere, not only from the orni- 

 thologists of Budapesth, Sarajevo, and Bucarest, but from many 

 others in various parts of Montenegro, Albania, Hungary, and 

 Roumania. 



After short stays at Budapesth and Sarajevo, the train was 

 taken to Gravosa, on the Adriatic. From there the only means 

 of travel is by the comfortable steamers of the Austrian Lloyd 

 or the Hungaro-Croatia lines. 



My first destination was to a small town on the Adriatic 

 coast, where, from information received, I expected to find 

 P. crispus. On first arrival at this very picturesque and inter- 

 esting little port, I was unable to speak or understand a single 

 Zool. 4th ser. vol. X., October, 1906. 2 F 



