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Show 578 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS .PELECANUS. [Nov. 25, Family PELECANIDAE. Char.-Feet small. The four toes on a level, connected together by a more or less indented web. Subfamily PELECANINAE. Size large ; body heavy; head with or without occipital crest. Genus PELECANUS. Bill very long; sac extending the entire length ; under mandible wider than the upper at the base. Upper mandible terminating in a sharp curved nail. Analytical Table. A. Bare loral space extending to the mandibles. a'. Feathers on the forehead extending to a point \ d -d • a US' ,, , b l < 2. P. minor. on the cubnen ,, n • [ S. P. javanicus. b'. Lower mandible feathered at base 4. P. erythrorhynchus. ' 5. P. crispus. c'. Feathers of the forehead forming a concave line at the base of the culmen. Mandibles free of feathers 6. P. rufescens. 7. P. fuscus. 8. P. molinee. B. Bare loral space separated from the bill by a row of feathers 9. P. australis. Description of the Genera and Species. Subfamily PELECANINAE. P E L E C A N U S , Linnaeus. Pelecanus, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 132 (1758) (auct.). Onocrotalus, Briss. Ornithologie (1760), torn. vi. p. 519, type P. onocrotalus; Wagler nee Briss. Isis (1832), p. 1233, type P. molinee. Catoptropelicanus, Reich., type P. conspicillatus. Onocrotalus, Reich., nee Briss. nee Wagl., type P. crispus. Cyrtopelicanus, Reich. MS., type P. erythrorhynchus. Leptopelicanus, Reich. MS., type P. fuscus. Largest in size of all the birds of this family. Head long, oval, flattened. Neck long and thick. Wings long, secondaries exceeding the primaries when the wing is folded. Tail moderate, rounded. Tarsi short; toes long, webs broad, not indented. Bill very long; gular sac attached to the crura of the lower mandible for its entire length. Nostrils in adults hidden. This genus, instituted by Linnaeus at a much earlier date even than the one selected as a starting-point for this monograph, comprises various species of birds which cannot be confounded with any others known, and which, according to the views of the present writer, do not present any characters not common to all, which can be considered of sufficient importance to separate any of the number from the remainder into a different genus, as has been of late years |