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palaeontological purposes, have, however, been added as divisions of the value of a 
sub-class : and the orders of the struthious birds have been suppressed as being 
' palseontologically inapplicable. The generic terms adopted by Mr. Sclater have 
been invariably employed in the present memoir. 
Literature. — The literature relating to Siwalik birds is comparatively small. A 
brief allusion to the occurrence of birds in the Siwaliks is made in Falconer’s notes, ^ 
and another occurs in a small pamphlet by the late Gen. Sir W. E. Baker.^ Most of 
the remains collected by Falconer and Cautley are figured in unpublished plate R. of 
the “ F.A.S.,” but are not named in the description given in the “ Palseontological 
Memoirs.”^ Several of these bones were subsequently named by M. Alphonse 
Milne-Edwards^ ; and a note on these and other remains was published in 1879 by 
the present writer.^ A more important memoir by Mr. W. Davies,® of the British 
Museum, with a plate of illustrations, appeared in the following year. 
In the present memoir all the remains of Siwalik birds which appear to admit 
of determination are more or less fully described ; while those specimens which have 
been hitherto known merely by preliminary notices have been figured. Some of the 
more important figures from the “F.A.S.” and Mr. Davies’ memoir have been 
reproduced. There are a few broken specimens of Siwalik bird-bones in the British 
Museum whose affinities it has not yet been found possible to determine. 
Sub-Class I.: CARINATE. 
Oedee : STEGANOPODES. 
Family : PELECANIDjLJ. 
Genus: PELECANUS, Linn. 
Distribution. — The genus has now a world-wide distribution, and is represented 
by a large number of species.'^ It is represented in the miocene of Em’ope by P. 
intermedins Fraas,® and P. gracilis., Milne-Edwards,® of Allier; both of which seem 
to be closely allied.^® The so-called P. mioccenus, Lartet, is considered by Milne- 
Edwards to be nearer Sula.'^^ It is possible that Pelecanus was represented in the 
eocene of Paris.^^ 
1 “ PalEeontological Memoirs,” vol. I., p. 23. 
2 “ Memoir on the Fossil Eemains presented by himself and Col. Colvin to the Museum at Ludlow,” p. 16 (Ludlow, 1850). 
3 Vol. I., p. 554. 
4 “ Eochorchos Anatomiques ' et Paleontologiques pour servir a I’histoire des Oiseaux Fossiles de la France.” (Paris, 
, 1867-77.) 
6 ” Notes on some Siwalik Birds.” ‘ Records' vol. XIT., p. 52. 
6 “ On some fossil Bird-Eemains from the Siwalik Hills in the British Museum.” ‘ Geol. Mag.,' decade 2, vol. VII., 
p. 18, pi. IT. (1880). 
7 A list is given by A. Dubois, ‘ Bui. Mus. Boy. Eist. Nat. Belg.,' vol. II., p. 1 (1883). 
8 “ Fauna von Steinheim,” pi. X., fig. 3 (skuE). 
9 Op. cit., vol. I., p. 250, pis. XXXVIII. -IX. 
10 Ibid, vol. II., p. 576. 11 Ibid, vol. I., p. 250. 
12 Ibid, vol. I., p. 249. 
