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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 webs 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 plum- 

 beous ; edges of upper and lower mandible for the terminal two-thirds yellowish, 

 and in the young a horny whity 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. 



Length. Male, 70 to 74-5 inches ; expanse 114 to 122; tail 9*5 to lo; wing 

 26-25 to 29-28; bill at front including nail 15-4 to i6'6. Females smaller ; 

 length 66 to 68 ; wing 25 to 28. (6Vr. F. vii. p. 448 ; Hume Monog. 

 Pelecanus.) 



Eab. Sind, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces and Oudh, also Beloochistan (Mekran 

 Coast). 



1454. Pelecanus manillensis, Gm., Syst. Nat.i.p. 571. Pele- 

 canus phillipensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 571 ; Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 858, 

 No. 1004 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 658 ; id., Str. F. viii, p. 116 ; 

 Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 330 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 326. Pele- 

 canus rufescens, apud. Elliot. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 583 (part). Pelecanus 

 phillipinensis, Blyth, B. Burm. p. 164; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 1198. The 

 SPOTTED-BILLED or GREY PELICAN. 



Breeding Plumage. Head, neck and upper plumage greyish white or in 

 some pure white, with dark bases visible only on lifting the feathers ; feathers of 

 the head long, soft, silky and greyish brown, forming a mane-like ridge to the 

 upper back ; occipital crest short, the feathers slightly recurved, of a brownish 

 colour and tipped with white ; scapulars white at the base, of a grey colour 

 and black shafted ; upper back and scapulars with the feathers sharply 

 pointed ; lower back, rump and flanks rich vinaceous, the shafts like those of 

 the upper tail coverts hair brown ; lesser and median coverts like the back ; 

 greater coverts grey, black shafted ; primaries dusky grey, white at the base ; 

 secondaries and tertiaries dusky grey ; feathers of the tail grey, black shafted ; 

 the basal half or more of the inner webs and shafts white ; under tail coverts, 

 greyish white, mottled with brown and like the under wing coverts tinged 

 with vinaceous ; bill pale bluish, tinged with fleshy, the tip yellowish ; mandi- 

 bular and gular pouch dusky ; the gular pouch with reddish venations and 

 tinged ochreous or yellow ; irides pale or dusky brown ; legs fleshy. In non- 

 breeding plumage there is no vinaceous tinge. 

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