144 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
outer halves of secondary wing feathers black. The 
iris is grey-green, the bare skin round the eye blue; 
bill and claws bluish-horn colour; webs of feet 
dark brown; scales down front of toes light green. 
This species is the representative in Australia of 
the " Solan Goose," which inhabits the Bass Rock, 
in the sea-gateway of Edinburgh. 
PELICAN 
Catoptropelicanus conspicillatus conspicillatus 
The Connewarre Lakes, to which I have so often 
had to refer as the great haven in this district for all 
water-birds, doubtless had in days long past their 
colonies of nesting Pelicans. To-day the great un- 
gainly creatures are but visitors there, though it is 
still, fortunately, nothing unusual to see four or 
five or even a score basking, with elephantine uncon- 
cern of passing boats, on one of the sandbanks or 
muddy islets which mark the tortuous passage through 
the shallows of what is left of the Barwon River. 
The nearest breeding-place is, I believe, Lake 
Corangamite, there being one or two other spots 
where the Pelican nests in the Western District, and 
there is a certain amount of movement of the birds 
to and from these inland lakes and Connewarre, 
passing over Geelong on the way. At times they 
move at a really immense height, soaring round in 
circles at what I should estimate to be at least 2,000 
feet over the town. I have seen this more than once, 
