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Florida]; Cory, Aid; viii. p. 40 (1891) [Antigua]; ^'orthrop, Auk, 

 viii. p. 79 (1891) [Andros Island]; Breiost. Sf L'hapm. Auk, viii. 

 p. 137 (1891) [Suwanee R.] ; Gundl. Auk, viii. p. 190 (1891) ; 

 Jamison, Auk, viii. p. 233 (1891) [Pine Island] ; Luwr. Auk, viii. 

 p. 236 (1891) [Florida : breeding]; Conj, Auk, viii. p. 295 (1891) 

 [Berry I.] ; Scott, Auk, viii. p. 363 (1891) [Jamaica]; Con/, Cat. 

 W. Ltd. 13. p. 85 (1892); Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1892, pp. 66, 104 

 [Curafao]; Feters, J. f. O. 1892, p. 122 [Curasao] ; Moseley, Notes 

 Vol/. Clmll. pp. 10, 13 (1892) ; Hartert, Ibis, 1893, p. 308 [Aruba], 

 p. 326 [Curasao], p. 336 [Bonaire] ; A. O. U. Check-l. ed. ii. p. 46 

 (1895) ; Christy, Ibis, 1897, p. 342 [San Uomingo]. 



Pelecauus carolineiisis, Gynel. <S'. N. i. pt. ii. p. 571 (1788) : Latham, 

 Lid. On), ii. p. 884 (1790) ; Bonnat. Tabl. Encyd. Meih. i. p. 52 

 (1796) ; Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 140 (1817) ; Steph. 

 in SJunc's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. i. p. 115 (1825). 



Le Pelican bigarre d'Amerique, Borkhausen, etc., Teutsche Orn. 

 pi. 59 (1807). 



Black-bellied Pelican, Lath. Gen. Hist. x. p. 403 (1824). 



Leptopelicanus fuscus, Beichenb. Natdrl. Syst. Voy. p. vii (1853). 



Onocrotalus fuscus, Bonap. CoJisp. Av. ii. p. 163 (1855). 



Adult male and female in breeding-plumage (February-August), 

 Back of the head and feathers bordering the gular pouch white, rest 

 of the head, crest, and upper margins of the pouch clad in sharp, 

 rather stiff plumes of a pale yellowish straw, but these are ap- 

 parently only found in the most adult examples, and some birds in 

 otherwise complete breeding-plumage have the entire head and 

 borders of the gular pouch white, rest of the neck dark velvety browu, 

 the feathers on the nape forming a short reddish mane. As the 

 plumage becomes woi'n the general colour of the neck changes to 

 reddish chestnut : plumage of upper parts pale ashy or silvery grey, 

 the feathers of the back, rump, lesser and median wing-coverts and 

 scapulars edged with blackish browu, producing a striped appear- 

 ance ; primaries black, with the basal three-quarters of the shaft 

 white ; secondaries and tail-feathers mostly ashy, becoming 

 brownish when worn ; a patch of stiff yellow plumes at the base of 

 the fore-neck ; rest of the underparts smoky browu, the sides of 

 the breast and flanks with narrow white shaft-stripes. Tail com- 

 posed of 22 feathers. 



cJ . Total length about 52 inches, culmeu 13-2, wing 22, 

 tail 6, tarsus 3. 



$ . Total length about 49 inches, culmen 11-5, wing 20, tail o-8, 

 tarsus 2-9. 



In hreeding-phimage. Iris yellowish ; bill greyish, tinged with 

 brown and spotted irregularly with carmine ; tip of upper and 

 terminal half of lower mandible blackish, naked space round the 

 eye blue ; pouch dull greenish brown or olive-brown (purple 

 according to Cory) ; tarsi and feet black. 



Adult male and female in non-breeding plumage (Sept. to Feb.). 

 Differ from the above in having all the feathered pai'ts of the neck 

 pure white, excej)t the base of the fore-neck. 



Toung in thejirst year. Head brown ; neck pale whitish brown, 



