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PELECANID.E. 
Genus PELECANUS, Linnams. 
PELECANUS CONSPICILLATUS, Temminck- 
Australian Pelican. 
Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. ii., sp. 651, p. 486. 
This species is universally dispersed over the whole of Australia. 
They construct large nests of sticks and aquatic herbage, often 
placed close together on the top of inaccessible rocky islands off the 
coast, or on some of the islets in our large inland lakes. The eggs 
two in number for a sitting, are of a dirty yellowish-white, thickly 
coated with lime, and varying considerably in their size and form. 
Specimens in the Dobroyde Collection taken by the late Mr. S. 
White of the Reed Beds, South Australia, vary from swollen to 
elongated ovals. I give the measurements of three of them :— 
length (A) 3-34 x 2-31 inches; (B) 3-59 x 2-2 inches; (C) 3-99 
x 2-25 inches. 
An average specimen in my own collection taken at the Gippsland 
Lakes, Victoria, measures 3-38 inches in length by 2 - 2 inches in 
breadth. 
Hab. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 
Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New 
South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, 
West and South-West Australia, South Coast New Guinea. 
(Ramsay.) 
