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the remains of a pelican were picked up on the shore at 
Castle Eden, Durham. Such are the scanty records of 
the appearance of a pelican in England in modern 
times. 
The bone found in Cambridgeshire may have belonged 
to P. onocrotalus, a native of South and South-Eastern 
Europe, and which is stated to be “common on the lakes 
and watercourses of Hungary and Russia, and also seen 
further south in Asia and in Northern Africa.” M. Milne- 
Edwards, however, has not quite determined the species, 
for, on comparison with the bones of other recognized and 
existing species, it appears to differ rather remarkably in 
its greater length. 
Enough has probably been said, however, to show the 
interest which attaches to the discovery, and to suggest 
further research. 
With the pelican ends the long list of birds mentioned 
in the works of Shakespeare. 
The reader who has had the patience or the curiosity 
to follow us thus far will, doubtless, ere this have formed 
a just estimate of Shakespeare’s qualifications as a natu¬ 
ralist, and will have drawn the only conclusion which the 
evidence justifies. 
It is impossible to read all that Shakespeare has written 
in connection with ornithology, without being struck with 
the extraordinary knowledge which he has displayed for 
the age in which he lived ; and our admiration for him as 
