436 PELECANIN A. 
mandible furrowed ; nostrils minute, almost impervious, in a long 
groove, supposed to be wanting ; wing very long; tail moderately 
long, wedge-shaped ; tarsus short; claw of the middle-toe pecti- 
nated externally. ‘ 
Sula cyanops, Sund. 
999bis.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 328. 
THE WHITE Boosy. 
Length, 32°5 ; wing, 16°5 ; tail, 8; tarsus, 2°25; bill at front, 4. 
Bill horny-blackish at base ; irides lemon-yellow; legs and feet 
bluish-grey. 
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. 
The White Booby occurs on the Sind Coast. 
SUB-FAMILY, Pelecaninee. 
Bill long, flattened, compressed and hooked at tip; tail short ; 
lower mandible and throat with a membraneous pouch ; orbits 
nude. 
Genus, Pelecanus, Lin. 
The characters are the same as those of the sub-family. 
Pelecanus crispus, Bouch. 
1004bis—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 328. 
THE WHITE PELICAN. 
3. Length, 70 to 745; expanse, 114 to 122; wing, 26:25 
to 29:28; tail, 95 to 10; bill at front, 15°4 to 16°6. 
?,. Length, 66 to 68; wing, 25 to 28. 
In the adult in spring plumage, excepting the quills, primary 
- coverts and winglet, 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 in which it is looked at; there is a broad 
band at the base of the neck in front and at the sides, faintly 
tinged with very pale straw color; there is not the faintest tinge 
of rosy anywhere ; the whole of the feathers of the head and 
neck are very narrow, long, soft, and silky, much curled, and 
twisted on the head, especially behind and just above the eye ; 
and the feathers of the back of the head are much elongated, 
so as to form a dense, full crest, some 4°25 inches long; a line 
of feathers, about 1°5 inches wide, down the whole back of the 
neck, is of a more snowy and less pearly-white than the rest of 
the neck ; the scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts and median 
and greater wing-coverts are conspicuously black shafted, and 
all these, except the longest of the scapylars, are very long and 
lanceolate. A few of the longest scapulars are broad and round 
or mucronate at the end; back, scapulars and tail with a beautiful 
