MR. S. F. HAKMER ON SOME BONES OF A PELICAN. 
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ON SOME BONES OF A PELICAN FROM 
THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE FENS. 
By Sidney F. Harmbr, M.A., B.Sc. 
Read 2Slh September, 1S97. 
In February, 1897, some bones from the Fens were brought to 
the University Museum of Zoology at Cambridge. Most of these 
specimens belonged to the Beaver, Pig, Swan, Goose, and Pike ; 
but three of them proved, on examination, to have belonged to a 
Pelican, a bird which has been recorded on two previous occasions 
from the same part of the country. 
The first account was given by Professor Newton (Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1868, p. 2), and refers to a left humerus, in the Wood wardian 
Museum at Cambridge. This specimen was described by Professor 
Alphonse Milne Edwards in the ‘Annales des Sciences Naturelles’ 
(5® Ser. Zool. vol. viii. 1867, p. 28b) ; and a translation of this paper 
appeared in ‘ The Ibis ’ (N.S. vol. iv. 1868, p. 363). Milne Edwards 
described in detail the characters by which the humerus of a Pelican 
can be distinguished, the great size of the bone being alone an 
almost certain indication of the genus. He further pointed out that 
the ossification of the specimen submitted to him was incomplete at 
the articular extremities ; and that the bird was therefore a young 
one, which was probably native to the Fens, and not an accidental 
immigrant. 
A second left humerus from Feltwell Fen, in Norfolk, was 
presented in 1871 to the University Museum of Zoology, by 
Mr. J. II. Gurney, jun., to whom it was given by Mr. John Baker, 
the well-known Cambridge birdstuffer. In exhibiting it to the 
Zoological Society, Professor Newton called attention (Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1871, p. 702) to its correspondence in size with the humerus 
of a recent specimen believed to belong to Pelecanus crispus. 
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