586 MR. D. G. ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PELECANUS. [Nov. 25, 
The P. philippensis of Jerdon is undoubtedly the immature bird 
of P. rufescens; and the young, as described by him, is a bird of 
this species in its first stage of plumage. Riippell’s figure exhibits 
very fairly the adult in perfect plumage, and is the only one yet 
given by which the species is properly represented, although the 
drawing may not be so artistic as could be wished. A specimen of 
this bird in the British Museum, from Nepaul, Hodgson’s collec- 
tion, is very interesting, as it is just changing to the adult plumage, 
and exhibits very distinctly the reddish colour on the back and 
rump, while still retaining the black marks on the upper mandible, 
thus combining the characteristics of rwfescens and philippensis, 
and showing that the latter supposed species is but the young of the 
former. 
It is very difficult to decide what species Jerdon intends by his 
P. javanicus, as he seems to confound three in one, viz. P. java- 
nicus, P. minor, and P. rufescens. He describes his bird as 
having broad black margius on each side of the tertiaries, which is 
truly a character of javanicus; but then he speaks of an occipital 
crest and golden-yellow breast, which, with the dimensions given, 
would seem to refer his speciinen to ‘‘ minor ;” while, at the con- 
clusion of the article, he says, ‘‘ forehead with the frontal plumes 
not narrowed in front, but truncated and emaginate; bill with a 
double series of impressed dark spots.” Now the form of the 
frontal feathers here described renders it impossible that the bird he 
had in view could belong to any species of the onocrotalus style, 
and therefore both javanicus and minor are excluded from all further 
consideration ; while the truncate and emarginate frontal plumes, 
with the dark spots upon the bill, are characteristics of young rw- 
fescens; therefore I have referred Jerdon’s birds to the present 
species. 
PELECANUS FUSCUS. 
Pelecanus fuscus, Linn. Syst. Nat. (1766) p. 215; Vieill. Gal. 
Ois. t. 276; Licht. Abhand. Akad. Wiss. Berl. (1838) t. 3. f. 6; 
Donna. Ornith. Beitr, vol. ii. pt. 1, p. 848; Aud. B. of Am. t. 251. 
fig. 421; id. Orn. Biog. vol. iii. p. 376; Reich. Syst. Av. t. 37. 
figs. 382, 383; Schleg.. Mus. Pays-Bas. 4™¢ livr. p. 28; Sclat. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (1868) pp. 268 & 269; Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. 
vol. ii. p. 163; Lawr. B. of Am. p. 870; Lath. Ind. Orn. vol. ii. 
p- 833. sp. 3; Bonnat, Ency. Méth. Ornith. (1790) p. 43. 
Pélican brun d’ Amérique, Buff. Plan. Enl. 957. 
Charlestown Pelican, Penn. Arct. Zool. vol. ii. p. 308. sp. 506; 
Lath. Syn. vol. ii. p. 580. sp. 3. 
Pelecanus carolinensis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. (1788) vol. i. pt. 2, 
p- 571; Bonnat. Ency. Méth. Ornith. (1790) p. 52; Lath. Ind. 
Ornith, vol. il. p. 884. sp. 7. 
Onocrotalus fuscus, Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. vol. ii. p. 163. 
Leptopelecanus fuscus, Reich. Syst. Av. pl. 70. 
Dusky Pelican, Penn. Arect. Zool. vol. ii. 308. sp. 507. 
Brown Pelican, Lath. Syn. vol. ili. p. 585. sp. 7. 
