498 OUR INDIAN PELICANS. 
first feather to the tip of the longest feather, nearly six inches in 
length ; the breast patch is more extended, of a duller but 
deeper straw yellow, inclining slightly to ferruginous, and 
the rosy tint is, if anything, stronger than in the January birds 
above described. 
Turning now tothe males they measure as follows : Length, 
70 to 72 ; expanse, 115 to 120; tail from vent, 8 to 92; 
wing, from 26 to 28°25; tarsus, 5-5 to 5:8; bill at front, 
165 to 175; width of upper mandible as before, 1‘7 to 1:88 ; 
mid toe and claw, 6 to 62; weight, 25 to 28lbs. 
All that I have above said about the females appears to me 
to apply equally well to the males; but I have not yet 
obtained such a good series of these latter asI have of the 
females. I have no specimen of the male showing the tertiaries 
margined on both sides with black, and I have no male witha 
crest more than two inches long. 
It may be that the males never assume the same long crests 
that the females do, or exhibit the black margins on both webs 
of the tertiaries; this is a matter which further investigation 
must decide. 
The above measurements and remarks refer of course to 
adults. The young differ markedly in size of bill and in the 
color of the soft parts. A fine young male with some lesser 
and all the greater coverts, scapulars, tertiaries and secondaries 
brown, the two latter only profusely silvered with grey, 
measured as follows: Length, 61:5; expanse, 110 ; tail from 
vent, 85; wing, 25°5; tarsus, 54; bill at front, 14; great- 
est width of upper mandible as above, 175; mid toe 
and claw, 52 ; weight, about 18lbs. The legs and feet were 
pale yellowish fleshy or pinkish yellow, a long black patch on 
the front of the tarsus, a broad plumbeous patch on the inner 
side of the tarsus, a black patch on the front of the first joint 
of the mid toe, and similar but feebler patches on the front 
of its other joints,and on all the jointsof the outer toe; nails 
blackish, but that of the fourth toe yellow, with a large black- 
ish blotch about the middle ; irides yellowish brown; the gular 
pouch very dingy yellow; the cheeks and orbits dull reddish 
ink. 
I dare say that younger birds still, of which I have seen 
some, though I never procured a specimen, and which appeared 
tobe a dull brown throughout, have the whole legs and feet 
dusky, and very likely have the bill quite different from that 
of the adults. The youngest bird I have obtained had the bill 
chiefly a dull pale mauve, spotted and marbled with yellow 
at. the edges and towards the points, the basal portion of 
the culmen only having a more livid tinge. 
The question still remains what is this one species; my 
