582 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PELECANUS. [Nov. 25, 
I have never seen a specimen of this bird; and the type, which is 
now in the collection of the East-India Company, is not at present 
visible, on account of the birds being packed preparatory to their 
removal to another location ; consequently I am not able to give an 
opinion upon its specific value. 
It is distinguished from P. onocrotalus, according to its describer, 
by having the margins of the tertiaries black, and by never having 
any pendent occipital feathers; instead it has a few recurved 
feathers upon the nape. According to Blyth, as quoted from ‘The 
Ibis,’ the forehead is never tumid, the bare skin of the cheeks is 
deep purplish or livid carneous, and the pouch intense bright yellow. 
Length, as given by Blyth, 5 feet 6 in.; alar extent 8 feet 10 in. ; 
wing, from carpal joint, 26 in.; tail 8 im. ; bill, along culmen, 14°5; 
tarsus 55 in. Another had the bill 15°5 in., wing 27 in.; inathird 
the bill was 16 inches in length. 
PELECANUS CRISPUS. 
Pelecanus crispus, Bruch, Isis (1832), p. 1109; Licht. Abhandl. 
Akad. Wiss. Berl. (1838) t. 3. fig. 4, p. 437; Gould’s B. of Eur. 
pl. 406, vol. v.; Bree, B. of Eur. vol. iv. p. 167 ; Naum. Vég. Deutsch. 
vol. ii. p. 180, pl. 283; Reichen. Syst. Av. vol. i. pl. 36. figs. 378, 
379; Feldege? ; Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas, 4™° livr. p. 32 ; Bon. Consp. 
Gen. Av. vol. ii. p. 162. sp. 2; Brandt, Icon. Animal. Rossic. Noy. 
(1836) p. 59; Sclat. P. Z.S. (1868) p. 267. 
P. onocrotalus, Pall. Ross.-Asiat. vol. ii. p. 292; Eversm. in 
Script. Literar. a Ceesarea Universit. Casanien. editis (1835), fascic. 
n. p. 370. 
P. patagiatus, Brehm, Isis (1832), p. 1109. 
Head crested; feathers of the forehead advancing on each side 
towards the nostrils, forming a concave line upon the culmen. Gular 
pouch extending for about 4 inches upon the throat, in a gently 
curved line from the base of the lower mandible. The feathers of 
the head and neck are long, narrow, and filamentous. The body- 
feathers terminate in long points, those of the under surface being 
very narrow. The entire plumage, save the primaries, is silvery 
white; a yellow tinge upon the long feathers of the breast ; those 
of the back wings and tail have black shafts. Primaries black, 
greyish at their bases and inclined to grey at their tips. The 
upper mandible is grey, marked with blue and red; and on each 
side, at the base of the under mandible, a spot of yellowish grey. 
Gular pouch deep orange, intermingled with bluish. Naked skin 
round the eye reddish, with a blue shade near the bill. Tarsi and 
feet light flesh-colour. Iris yellow. 
Wing 26 in.; tail (twenty-two feathers) 63 in.; bill, along cul- 
men, 16 in.; tarsus 43 in.; middle toe 43 in. 
The young are devoid of crest, have a greyish pouch, and the 
entire plumage brownish grey. 
Hab. Dalmatia, Greece, Russia, Asia, and northern parts of 
Africa, China. 
This splendid bird, the largest of the genus, may stand as the 
