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Show 6.34 SURGEON F. DAY ON INDIAN FISHES. [Nov. 7, de Lisboa, 1871, no. xi. p. 174), in discussing this question, is likewise favourable to regarding them as distinct, "si les deux rangs de taches brunes regulierement imprimees sur la mandibule superieure se retrouvent constamment chez les individus de Malacca, de l'lnde, de Cochinchine, de l'Asia enfin, tandis qu'elles ne se presentent jamais chez ceux d'Afrique." Besides the skins of P. philippensis in Capt. Beavan's collection from Burmah, of which I have already spoken*, I have recently examined two obtained by the late Dr. Maingay in Malacca, one in Mr. Swinhoe's collection from Swatow, China, and one from India in the Strasburg Museum. In all these specimens the above-mentioned dark spots on the upper mandible (see figs. 2 & 3, p. 633) are well developed, while nothing of the kind is visible in our living examples of P. rufescens, either adult or young. 1 am therefore still more confirmed in m y view that the African and Asiatic birds must be kept distinct. There appear to me therefore to be now ten well-determined species of Pelecanus, viz. :- fl. P. onocrotalus, from S. Europe and N.E. Africa. f2. P. minor, from S. Europe, Africa, and S. Asia. 3. P. sharpii, from W . Africa. t4. P. crispus, from S. Europe and N.E. Africa. *f*5. P. rufescens, from Africa. 6. P. philippensis, from S. Asia. 7. P. trachyrhynchus, from Mexico and Western N. America. f8. P. conspicillatus, from Australia. 9. P. fuscus, from Central America. 10. P. molinee, from Chili. Besides these, I have seen two specimens of Pelicans in the Strasburg Museum, which appear to me (as likewise to its excellent custos Dr. Schimper) to indicate the existence in the highlands of Columbia of an undescribed species of the genus allied to P. fuscus and P. molinee, but peculiar for its long, solid, and very much compressed beak. These specimens are both in immature plumage, and are labelled as having been received from Bogota in 1847. It would be of great interest to discover the adult of this Pelican. 2. Remarks on Indian Fishes. By F R A N C I S D A Y , F.Z.S., F.L.S. [Received September 27, 1871.] Having only just obtained the ** Zoological Record' for 1869,1 have been ignorant up to the present time that the identification of several species of fishes made by me in the • Proceedings' of this Society * Antea, 1868, p. 269. t Of these species we have examples now living in the Society's collection. |
