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satiny gloss; the two exterior tail feathers with nearly the whole 
shafts black, and generally with a decided grey tinge on the outer 
web to near the tip ; the rest of the tail feathers with only the 
terminal third of the shafts black; primaries (all of which are 
white at the base) and their coverts and winglet very dark brown, 
almost black; the second to the fifth primary emarginate on the 
outer web and silvered with grey on the last above the emargina- 
tion, which in the second is hidden by the coverts; there is more 
or less silvery or grey on the outer webs of all the other 
primaries, their coverts and winglets; the first five primaries are 
faintly notched on the inner web, and more pale or greyish-white 
on the latter above the notches, while the rest of the primaries 
have the inner portions of the inner webs white ; this is still more 
conspicuous in the secondaries, most of which have their whole 
outer webs a silver-grey ; the tertials are pure white; the feathers 
of the base of the neck and breast thickly set, very narrow 
and pointed, the filaments along the margin a good deal separated. 
The young bird wants the linear lanceolate feathers. It has the 
whole head, neck, and upper and lower surface white ; the back 
of the neck more or.less shaded with grey ; tips of the quills anda 
row of small coverts near the margin of the wing pale wood-brown ; 
the feathers of the head shorter and more fur-like than in the 
adult ; crest small ; scapulars and shoulder feathers broadly tipped 
with pale brown, with dark shafts; tail feathers white at the 
base on both webs; greater part of the rest of the inner web 
white ; primaries and secondaries white at their bases ; a large 
portion of their inner webs white; the rest a darkish brown. 
Adult: irides white, in the young pale yellow; legs and feet pale 
-plumbeous ; edges of upper and lower mandibles for the terminal 
two-thirds yellowish, and in the young a horny white-brown, 
or yellowish-grey ; the nail orange or pale orange. 
In the breeding plumage the pouch is a deep orange-red, with 
a black patch on either side, just at the base of the lower 
mandible ; in the non-breeding plumage a dirty primrose, or pale 
fleshy, tinged with lemon-yellow. 
The White Pelican occurs on the river Indus in Sind. 
Pelecanus javanicus, Horsf. 
1003.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 857; P. onocrotalus, 
Lin. ; Butler, Guzerat, Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 82 ; Murray’s 
Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 330. 
THE LESSER WHITE PELICAN. 
Length, 56; wing, 25; tail, 6:5; tarsus, 4; bill, 12 to 13. 
Bill bluish, red and yellow on the sides, tip blood-red ; lower 
mandible bluish posteriorly, yellow in front; pouch yellow, 
veined with purplish-red ; irides blood-red ; legs fleshy pink. 
White, in fresh plumage with a highly roseate tint ; primaries 
dusky ; secondaries grey externally ; tertiaries whitish with broad 
black margins on each side, internally greyish ; tail white. 
