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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 and a 

 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. 32 ; 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. 



