328 PELECANID^. 



spot near the tip ; irides deep brown ; legs and hallux and its web 

 white, tinged bluish and creamy yellow ; rest of feet and claws black. 



"Male. — JjOir/^A, excluding elongated tail feathers, 16'85 to 17"8 inches, 

 central feathers project beyond the rest of the tail 3 to o'9, expanse 37 to 

 39"5, tail from vent, including elongated feathers, 7*5 to 10'3, wing 

 10-75 to 11-8, bill at front 2*2 to 2-45, tarsus \0 to 1-13, mid-toe 

 and claw 1"55 to 1"8. The Female 1 8*05 long, exclusive of elongated 

 feathers, which projected 4 inches beyond the others, expanse 39, tail 

 from vent including elongated feathers 9*0, wing 11" 7, bill at front 

 2-4, tarsus 1/' 



This is Mr. Hume's description of specimens secured by him in the 

 Gulf of Oman on the Mekran Coast, whether it is the immature of 

 P. cethereus, or a new species, is yet a moot question. Captain Butler, in 

 1877 {S. F. V. 302) also secured two specimens on the Mekran Coast 

 between Oormara and Gwadur, and these, Mr. Hume says, are 

 precisely similar to the four specimens secured in the Bay of Bengal. 



Family, PELECANID^.— (Leac/;.) Vigors. Sulidfe, Bona^i. 



Bill stout, straight, broad at the base, compressed at the tip, edges 

 irregularly serrated ; feet webbed j face nude. 



Sllla cyanops, Sundev. ; Phys. Selsk. Tidskr. 1837, t. 5; Gould. 

 B. As. vii. pi. 77; 8tr. F. y. 303, 307; Mvrray, Hdhk., Zool, cj-c, 

 8iiid, p. 248g. Sula melanops, Hartl. Pjw, i860, pi. 2, 3. — The 

 ■\Vhite Booby. 



Face to behind the eyes and throat nude ; entire head, neck, back, 

 rump, upper tail- coverts and entire lower parts white with a slight 

 fulvous tinge; primaries, secondaries and tertials, also the tail, black; 

 irides lemon yellow; bill horny, blackish at the base; both mandibles 

 denticulated for one-half their length from tip. 



Length. — 32*5 inches, bill at front 4, gape 4'87, tail from vent 8'0, 

 tarsus 2*25, wing 1G"5, legs and feet pale bluish grey. 



Hah — Sind and Beloochistan (Mekran Coast) ? Bengal. 



Sub-Family, PELECANIN^.— ^p. 



Bill long, flattened, compressed and hooked at tip; tail short; lower 

 mandible and throat with a membranous pouch ; orbits nude. 



Gen. Pelecanus.— im. 



Characters those of the Sub-Family. Second quill of wing longest ; 

 secondaries nearly as long as the quills; a membranous mandibular 

 and gular pouch. 



Pelecanus crispUS, Bruch. Berl. Trans. 1838, t. 3, 4 ; Naum. 

 Vog. t. 283; Gotdd. B. Fur. pi. 406 ; Str. F. i. 288 ; vii. 288 ; Murray, 

 Hdhk., Zool, Ssc, Sind., p. 248g. 



In the adult in spring plumage, excepting the quills, primary coverts 

 and wiuglet, the whole plumage is white, with more or less of a pearly 

 grey tinge on both the upper and under surfaces according to the light 



