1. I'ELECASUS. 



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Pelecanus plillippensis, Schleg. (nee Gmel.), Mus. Pays-Bas, ri, 



Pelecani, p. 33 (1863) [part, Africa]. 

 Pelecanus pbillipensis (sic), Blanf. (itee Gmel.) Zool. Abyss, p. 442 



(1870) [Zulla]. 

 Pelecanus philippensis, var. rufesceus, Dubois, Bull. Mus. Belg. ii. 



p. 9 (1883). 

 Pelecanus onocrotalus, Yerbury (nee Linn.), Ibis, 1886, p. 24 [Aden], 



& 1896, p. 40. 



Adult in hreedin'j-plumaye. !Most like P. pMlippeiisis, which it 

 resembles in having the general colour white, and the interscapular 

 line, lower back, rump, &c. viuaceous. It ma)% however, be at 

 once distinguished by the following characters : the sides of the 

 culmen are entirely devoid of the large, impressed, bluish-black 

 spots ; the feathers covering the top and sides of the head as well 

 as the neck are narrow, straight, and smooth ; the feathers of the 

 crest are long and pointed as in the female of P. onocrotalus, and 

 more than 4 inches in length in the most adult male, and the colours 

 of the soft parts are entirely different. Tail composed of 20 feathers. 



Adult male. Total length about -58 inches, culmen 14-5, wing 25, 

 tail 7"S, tarsus 3'5. 



Iris yellowish brown, mottled darker; bill yellowish white; nail 

 at tip of upper mandible orange ; pouch flesh-coloiir, with fine 

 transverse, equidistant, and parallel yellow lines ; legs yellowish 

 white (TF. T. Blanf or d). 



Adult in non-breeding plamarje. Ilesembles the adult of P. pMlip- 

 peiisis in a similar plumage. 



In the immature stages of plumage this species closely resembles 

 P. philippensis of a similar age. 



Hah. Africa, south of about 16° N. latitude; Aden. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Imm. sk. 



c. d. Ad. et 

 sk. 



e. Ad. sk. 

 /, Imm. sk. 



(/. Ad. sk. 



h. (S ad. sk. 

 i. (5 imm. sk. 



k. Skeleton. 

 /. Sternum. 



[Africa.] 

 [Africa. J 

 Gambia. 



River Niger. 



Zulla, Abyssinia, Juue 12. 



Uissi I., Annesley Bav, 



Aug. 30. 

 Kbartoom, Sept. 20. 

 Aden, Juue 1. 



[Africa.] 

 Abyssinia. 



6. Pelecanus fuscus. 



Purchased. 

 Old Coll. 

 Governor Eeudall 



[C.]. 

 Dr. Baik-ie [C.]. 

 ^Y. T. Blantbrd, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Purchased. 

 Col. J. W. Yerbury 



[P.]. 

 Purchased. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



The Pelican of America, Edwards, Nat. Hist. ii. p. 03, pi. 93 (1747) 



[West Indies]. 

 Le Pelican brun, Brisson, Orn. vi. p. 524 (17G0) ; Buffon, Hist. Nat, 



Ois. viii. p. 306 (1781). 

 Pelecanus ouocrotalus 13. occidentalis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 21o (1766). 

 Pelican brun d'Am^rique, D'Aubent. PI. Enl. \x. p. 187, pl.64 



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