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PELAUGOPSTS. — PELECANÜS. 
gig^antea Walden, Ann. mag. hat. hist. 1874. XIII. 123. — Sutu. 
Gouldi SiiARPE, Monogr. Alcedin. 101; Pioc. Zool. Soc. 1870. iS'è. — Manilla. 
g'urial Cabanis, Mus. Ileuie. II. 150. = Alcedo javana Boon, 
javana Cahams, Miis. Heine. II. 15G. = Alcedo javana Bonn, 
leucocephala Siiakpe, Froc. Zool. Soc. 1870. G4. = Alcedo javana Bodd. 
malaccensis Siiakpe, Monogr. Alcedin. 107. — Malacca. 
melanorhyncha Siiakpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870. 62; Monogr. Alcedin. 95. = 
Alcedo melanorhyncha ÏEM. 
PEL\RCiOPSIS iiiafi;iiiis Milne Edwards, Rech. Ois. foss. I. 460. Tb. 72. 
Gen. Ciconidarum, spec. tert. [Langy. 
PELASGIE Geoffroy. = Chaetura Steff. 
PELECANOIDES (Procellaridae. — TCSÀsxav nom. propr. slStjç adspectns) Lacépède, 
Mém. Institut 1800. 517. — Gray, Genera Birds 1844. III. 646. — Coues, 
Proc. acad. Philadelphia 1866. 188. = Halodroma Illig. 
Bill shorter than the head, broad at the base and much depressed; the sides 
swollen, grooved and gradually compressed towards the tip, which is lengthened, 
compressed, arched and acute; the lower mandible broad at the base and sud- 
dendly compressed at the tip, which is with the gonys arched and acute, the 
sides longitudinally grooved and deep; beneath isplaced a membranous pouch, 
capable of extension; the nostrils basal, one fourth the length of the bill, flattened 
above and forning two lengthened, sublinear, exposed apertures, placed side by side 
on the surface. Wings very short with the first two quills nearly equal and 
longest. Tail short and rounded. Tarsi rhater shorter than the middle toe, 
laterally compressed and covered with small scales. Toes long; the outer nearly 
as long as the middle toe, the hind toe and claw wanting. 
Berardi Quoy et Gaimard, Voy. Urania Tb. 37. — Halodroma Berardi Tem. 
Garnoti Gray, Genera Birds III. 646. = Halodroma Garnoti Schleg. 
uriiiatrix Gray, Genera Birds III. 646. = Halodroma urinafri.t III. 
PELECANOPUS Wagler, Oken's Isis 1832. = Sterna Lin. 
PELEflAlVlJS (Pelecanidae. — TcsX&xav nom. propr.). — Linne, Syst. Nat. 
1735. — Naumann, Natg. Vögel Deutschi. XI. 139. — Baird, Birds NAmerica 
868. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas Pelec. 27. — Eyton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1869. 578. 
Synon.: Onocrotalus Moehr. — Catopelicanus, Cyrtopelicanns , Leptopelicanus Reichb. 
Bill very long, nearly straight and very much dejjressed; the tip strong, curved 
and acute. Upper mandible with an elevated ridge convex at the base, but gra- 
dually becoming flat towards the end; lower broader at base than the upper. 
Nostrils basal, lateral, linear., situated in the grooves adjoining the ridge and 
scarcely jjerceptible. Wings moderate, the secondaries not differing much in length 
from the primaries; second quill longest. Tail short, broad and rounded. Tarsi 
short and stout, covered with reticulated scales. Toes situated on the same plane 
and all connected by broad webs; middle toe the longest. A loose membranous 
skin occupies a large space on the throat , extending to the end of the loiver man- 
dible and capable of great expansion. — 11 Specc. 
africanus Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1. 177. = Graculus africanus Gray. 
albigula Brandt. = Graculus albigula Tschcd. 
americanus Audubon, ornith. Biogr. IV. 88. = Pelecanus erythrorhynchus GxMel. 
aquilus Linne, Syst. Nat. I. 216. — Attagen aquilus Gray. 
australis Stephens, Gener. Zool. XIII. 113. — Pelecanus conspicillatus Tem. 
bassanus Linne, Syst. Nat. L 217. = Sida bassana Briss. 
Bougainvillei Lesson. = Graculus albigula Tschud. 
brachydactylus Lichtenstein. = Pelecanus erythrorhynchus Gmel. 
Brehmi Müller. = Pelecanus onocrotalus Lin. 
brevirostris Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 86. = Pelecanus rufescens Gmel. 
calorhynchiis Hodgson, Zool. Miscell. 86. -— Pelecanus rufescens Gmel. 
carbo Linne, Syst. Nat. I. 216. = Graculus carbo Gray. 
carboides Ellman, Zoologist 1861. 7472. — ? 
