382 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



flesh-coloured. Length, 6' 2" ; wing, 2' 5" ; tail, 1' 3" ; tip 

 of bill to forehead, 18". 



Widely distributed, frequenting vleys and the mouths of rivers. 

 Generally associates in small flocks ; soars to an immense attitude. I 

 have never seen it plunge after its prey. It swims with great rapidity, 

 and captures its food while sitting on the water. 



702. Pelicanus Rufescens, Lath ; p. Mitratus, 



Licht. ; Onocrotalus Philippensis, Briss., Ornith. VI, 

 p. 527 ; Pelicanus Gristatus, Less. ; Rupp. Atlas, t. 21. 



General colour, white ; frosted with grey on the wings, tail, 

 head, neck, and belly; tinged with yellow on the stiff feathers 

 of the breast, and with pink behind the thighs and all down 

 the back ; wing- feathers dark-brown; head crested; pouch, 

 yellow, with numerous perpendicular crimson lines. Length, 

 4' 7" ; wing, 1' 10" ; tail, 10". 



This delicately-tinted Pelican has several times been shot in the 

 neighbourhood of Cape Town, in company with the preceding, 

 which it resembles in habits. I saw them both in considerable num- 

 bers at Zoetendals Vley in October, 1865. They have also been 

 procured in Natal. 



