436 PELECANIN^E. 



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. 



9996k Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 328. 



THE WHITE BOOBY. 



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. 



10046k Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 328. 



THE WHITE PELICAN. 



<?. Length, 70 to 74'5 ; expanse, 114 to 122; wing, 26'25 

 to 29-28 ; tail, 9'5 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 scapulars, 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 



