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See also:PELICAN (Fr. Pelican; See also:Lat. Pelecanus or Pelicanus) , a large See also:fish-eating See also:water-See also:fowl, remarkable for the enormous pouch formed by the extensible skin between the See also:lower jaws of its See also:long, and apparently formidable but in reality very weak, See also:bill. The See also:ordinary pelican, the Onocrotalus of the ancients, to whom it was well known, and the Pelecanus onocrotalus of ornithologists, is a very abundant See also:bird in some districts of See also:south-eastern See also:Europe, south-western See also:Asia and See also:north-eastern See also:Africa, occasionally straying, it is believed, into the See also:northern parts of See also:Germany and See also:France; but the possibility of such wanderers having escaped from confinement is always to be regarded,' since few zoological gardens are without examples. Its usual haunts are the shallow margins of the larger lakes and See also:rivers, where fishes are plentiful, since it requires for its sustenance a vast See also:supply of them. The See also:nest is formed among reeds, placed on the ground and lined with grass. Therein two eggs, with See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white, chalky shells, are commonly laid. The See also:young during the first twelvemonth are of a greyish-See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown, but when mature almost the whole plumage, except the See also:black primaries, is white, deeply suffused by a See also:rich blush of See also:rose or See also:salmon-See also:colour, passing into yellow on the See also:crest and lower See also:part of the See also:neck in front. A second and somewhat larger See also:species, Pelecanus cris pus, also inhabits Europe, but has a more eastern See also:distribution. This, when adult, is readily distinguishable from the ordinary bird by the See also:absence of the blush from its plumage, and by the curled feathers that project from and overhang each See also:side of the See also:head, which with some difference of coloration of the bill, pouch, See also:bare skin See also:round the eyes and irides give it a wholly distinct expression. Two specimens of the 'humerus have been found in the See also:English See also:fens (See also:Ibis, 1868, p. 363; Proc. Zool. Society, 1871, p. 702), thus proving the existence of the bird in See also:England at no very distant See also:period, and one of them being that of a young example points to its having been bred in this See also:country. It is possible from their large See also:size that they belonged to P. crispus. Ornithologists have been much divided in See also:opinion as to the number of living species of the genus Pelecanus (cf. op. cit., 1868, p. 264; 1869, p. 571; 1871, p. 631)—the estimate varying from six to ten or eleven; but the former is the number recognized by M. See also:Dubois (See also:Bull. See also:Mus. de Belgique, 1883). North See also:America has one, P. erythrorhynchits, very similar to P. onocrotalus both in See also:appearance and habits, but remarkable for a triangular, horny excrescence See also:developed on the See also:ridge of the male's bill in the breeding See also:season, which falls off without leaving trace of its existence when that is over. See also:Australia has P. conspicillatus, easily distinguished by its black tail and wing-coverts. Of more marine See also:habit are P. philippensis and P. fuscus, the former having a wide range in See also:Southern Asia, and, it is said, reaching See also:Madagascar, and the latter See also:common on the coasts of the warmer parts of both North and South America.
The genus Pelecanus as instituted by See also:Linnaeus included the
' This caution was not neglected by the prudent, even so long ago as See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- BROWNE
- BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
- BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
- BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
- BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
- BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
- BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
- BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
- BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)
Browne's days; for he, recording the occurrence of a pelican in See also:Norfolk, was careful to See also:notice that about the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time one of the pelicans kept by the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king (See also:Charles II.) in St See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James's See also:Park, had been lnet.See also:cormorant (q.v.) and See also:gannet (q.v.)-as well as the true pelicans, and for a long while these and some other distinct See also:groups, as the snake-birds (q.v.), See also:frigate-birds (q.v.) and tropic-birds (q.v.), which have all the four toes of the See also:foot connected by a See also:web, were regarded as forming a single See also:family, Pelecanidae; but this name has now been restricted to the pelicans only, though all are still usually associated in the suborder Steganopodes of Ciconiiform birds. It may be necessary to See also:state that there is no See also:foundation for the See also:- VENERABLE (Lat. venerabilis, worthy of reverence, venerari, to reverence, to worship, allied to Venus, love; the Indo-Germ. root is wen-, to desire, whence Eng. " win, properly to struggle for, hence to gain)
venerable See also:legend of the pelican feeding her young with See also:blood from her own See also:breast, which has given it an important See also:place in ecclesiastical See also:heraldry, except that, as A. D. See also:Bartlett suggested (Proc. Zool. Society, 1869, p. 146), the curious bloody secretion ejected from the mouth of the See also:flamingo may have given rise to the belief, through that bird having been mistaken for the "Pelican of the See also:wilderness."2 (A.
End of Article: PELICAN (Fr. Pelican; Lat. Pelecanus or Pelicanus)
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