438 GRACULID. 
With the exception of the Deccan the Lesser White Pelican is 
more or less common throughout the district. 
It only occurs as a visitant, and does not remain to breed. 
Pelecanus philippensis, Gm. 
1004.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 858; Butler, Guzerat, 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 33; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 442; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 830. 
THE GREY PELICAN. 
Length, 62 ; expanse, 96; wing, 24; tail, 18; tarsus, 8; bill at 
front, 12 to 14. 
Bill pale bluish, tinged with carneous, yellow at tip; naked 
face and gular pouch pale livid fleshy, the latter varied with 
reddish lines, and faintly tinged with yellow; irides pale brown; 
legs fleshy. 
Head and neck greyish-white, the feathers rather scant and 
somewhat fur-like; a short occipital crest of slightly recurved 
feathers brownish, tipped with greyish-white; upper plumage 
greyish-white, the feathers of the back, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts being dingy whitish, tinged with grey; scapulars grey 
with black shafts, and the feathers white at the base; lesser and 
median-coverts greyish-white; greater coverts grey, with black 
shafts ; primaries dusky-grey with black shafts, white at the base 
with white shafts; secondaries and tertiaries much the same ; 
the tail grey, the feathers also black shafted, and the basal half 
or two-thirds of the inner webs white, as well as the base of the 
shaft ; lower plumage greyish-white, the feathers lanceolate, pure 
white, in the centre and tip, with grey margins and brownish at 
the base ; under tail-coverts greyish-white, slightly mottled with 
brownish ; under wing-coverts whitish. 
With the exception of the Deccan, where it is somewhat rare, 
the Grey Pelican is a common seasonal visitant throughout the 
region. 
Faminy, Graculide. 
Bill moderately long, cylindric, hooked at the tip, grooved ; 
wing moderate, tail-feathers stiff; upper tail-coverts exceedingly 
short ; lower tail-coverts also short. 
Grnus, Phalacrocorax, Brisson. 
Bill moderately long, slightly raised at the base, the tip well 
hooked ; nostrils, a small narrow line, apparently not pervious ; 
upper mandible truncated, orbits and throat more or less nude ; 
tail moderate or rather long, of fourteen stiff feathers, cuneate ; 
wings rather short. 
Phalacrocorax carbo, Lun. 
1005.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 861; Butler, Guzerat, 
