364- SIR. S. F. HARMER ON SOME BONES OF A PELICAN. 
The bones which have recently been acquired by the University 
Museum of Zoology were found at Littleport, near Ely. They were 
formerly in the possession of James L. Luddington, Esq., who has 
been kind enough to inform me that they were found on his farm 
in Burnt Fen, Littleport, some seven or eight years ago. They 
consist of the lower end of a humerus and the upper ends of a 
radius and ulna, all of the left side, and appearing to belong to the 
same individual. The conclusion that these are the associated 
hones of a single specimen is quite in accordance with previous 
experience of the way in which the hones of various animals are 
found in the peat of the Fens. 
The humerus of the Littleport specimen agrees closely with the 
Feltvvell bone, and the three Littleport bones have the closest 
resemblance, in form and size, to the corresponding bones of the 
recent P. crispus, to which reference has already been made. The 
ulna is, however, abnormal at a distance of 11 or 12 cm. from its 
upper or proximal end, and it has the appearance of having been 
broken, although the fracture was repaired during the life of the 
bird. The part of the ulna which is preserved measures only 
15 cm., so that the whole of the injured region of the bone is not 
visible. The resemblance, in other respects, between the Littleport 
bones and those of the recent P. crispus certainly lends support to 
the view hinted at by Professor Newton in 1871, and repeated on 
page 703 of his ‘Dictionary of Birds’ (part iii. 1894), that the 
Fen specimens belonged to that species. 
It is worthy of remark that a left humerus has been found on 
each of the three occasions on which the remains of a Pelican have 
been recorded from the Fens. The evidence thus afforded of the 
occurrence of three individuals goes far in support of the view that 
the Pelican was really native to this part of England. 
