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THE ROUGH -BILLED PELICAN. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill long and ftrait; the end either hooked or floping. 



Nostrils either totally wanting, or fmall, and placed in a furrow that runs 



along the fides of the bill. 

 Face naked. 



Gullet naked, and capable of great diftenfion, 

 Toes all four webbed. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Crefted white Pelican, with the fuperior mandible carinated and tubercu- 

 lated 5 the gular pouch ftriatcd with black. 



Rough-billed Pelican. Lath. Syn. 3. /». 586. 



Phil. TranJ. 42. p. 419, 54, 



IN its general appearance this fpecies fo much refembles the common Pe- 

 lican, that, on a curfory view, it might eafily pafs for the fame bird, or 

 at lead for a mere variety. When accurately examined, however, the differ- 

 ences, tho' not very ftriking to a common eye, are fufficient to juftify its being 

 confidered as fpecifically diftinft. The whole bird is white, except the longer 

 feathers of the wings, and the edges of the flioulders, which are black. The 



F f 2 bill 



