. Catalogue of the fossil birds in the British Museum (Natural History). :. 39 Pelecanus sivalensis, Davies\ Founded upon part of an ulna differing from the type of P. cant- leyi by its inferior dimensions and the much smaller relative size of the palmar trochlear depression. Ilah, India. 39745. The distal extremity of the right ulna ; from tho Older {Fu/.) Pliocene of the Siwalik Hills. The type ; described by Davies in the ' Geol. Mag.' decad. ii. vol. vii. p. 26, and also by the present writer in the ' Palseontologia Indica' (Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind.), ser. 10, vol. iii. p. 137, an
. Catalogue of the fossil birds in the British Museum (Natural History). :. 39 Pelecanus sivalensis, Davies\ Founded upon part of an ulna differing from the type of P. cant- leyi by its inferior dimensions and the much smaller relative size of the palmar trochlear depression. Ilah, India. 39745. The distal extremity of the right ulna ; from tho Older {Fu/.) Pliocene of the Siwalik Hills. The type ; described by Davies in the ' Geol. Mag.' decad. ii. vol. vii. p. 26, and also by the present writer in the ' Palseontologia Indica' (Mem. Geol. Surv. Ind.), ser. 10, vol. iii. p. 137, and figured in the ' Ree. Geol. Surv. Ind.' vol. sxiii. p. 235 (re- produced in fig. 9). Cautley Collection. Presented., 1842. Fig. i Pelecanus mitratus (A) and P. sivalensis (B).—Distal extremity of tlie right uliia. \. a, palmar trochlear depression. (From the 'Eec. Geol. Surv. Ind.') 39743. The proximal extremity of a left radius agreeing in relative size with the preceding specimen ; from the Sivcalik Hills This specimen does not present any well-marked structural features by which it can be distinguished from the much larger corresponding fragment of P. cautleyi. Cautley Collection Pelecanus intermedius, Fraas ^. Apparently allied to P. (jracilis. The skull is relatively more vaulted and narrower than in P. mitratus, the occipital fossa being ' Geol. Mag. decad. ii. vol. vii. p. 26 (1880). - Jahresh. Ver. Nat. Wiirtt. vol. sxvi. p. 281 (1870).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Department of Geology. [Birds]; Lydekker, Richard, 1848-1915. London
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