PELECANUS. 735 



1451. Sula aUStraliS, Steph> Gen. ZooL xiii. p. 104; Hume, Sir. F. 

 v. p. 318. Pelecanus sula, Linn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 218. Sula fusca (Linn.), 

 apud Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 851. Dysporus sula, David et Oust. Ois Chine, 

 P- 53; Gates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 229. The BROWN BOOBY. 



Breast, abdomen, sides of the body, vent and under tail coverts white ; 

 sides of the under tail coverts, also under wing coverts, marked with brown on 

 the edges of the feathers ; remaining plumage umber brown ; the feathers 

 of the back, scapulars, and rump edged with whity brown ; quills and tail 

 dark umber brown ; irides white ; bill creamy white, with a bluish tinge in 

 veins; pouch, gape, lores and orbital space pale hoary greenish yellow; legs 

 and feet pale yellow. (Hume.) 



Length. About 30 inches; tail 8; wing 16-5; tarsus rg ; bill from 

 gape 4- 5. 



Hal. The Bay of Bengal and the Tenasserim Coast. 



1452. Sula piSCator (Linn.), Gould, B. Austr. vii. pi. 79 ; Jerd., 

 B. Ind. iii. p. 852 ; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 116. Sula piscatrix, Salvad, Ucc. 

 Born. p. 368; Hume, Sir. F. iv. p. 483. Pelecanus piscator, Linn., Syst. 

 Nat. i. p. 217 The RED-LEGGED BOOBY. 



Whole plumage white, tinged with yellowish on the head and neck ; quills 

 and greater wing coverts blackish, variegated with silvery grey. (Oates.) Legs 

 and feet red ; young birds are brown. 



Length. 26 inches ; tail 8 ; wing 13-8 ; bill from gape 4*3. 

 Hab. Bay of Bengal. 



Sub-Family, PELECANIN^:. 



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

 dible and throat with a membranous pouch ; orbits nude. 



Gen. Pelecanus. Lin. 



Characters those of the Sub-Family ; second quill of wing longest ; secon- 

 daries nearly as long as the quills; a membranous mandibular and gular 

 pouch. 



Pelicans live in large congregated flocks and feed entirely on fish. 

 They fly high into the air, and go up vast heights by circling ; they do not 

 however obtain their prey by diving either under water from the surface, nor 

 by diving into it after the manner of sea gulls and terns, but arrange them- 

 selves in some suitable or likely spot on the water in two, three or even four 

 rows, or if there is not a sufficient number, form into a large semi-circle, and 

 beat the water on the surface with their wings, clapping also their huge bills, 

 and so drive the fish towards a shallow spot, where with their bills they gorge 



