500 ' OUR INDIAN PELICANS. 
median wing-coverts, scapular region and all but the longest 
scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts white; a short crest 
about 25” long, of white feathers, greyish brown at their 
bases ; the whole of the feathers of the neck short, soft, fur-like, 
and comparatively thinly set ; the brown bases of the feathers 
showing through and producing a mottled appearance ; a very 
faint straw-like tinge on the front of the neck at its base ; the 
rump and upper tail-coverts, the median wing-coverts and all 
but the longest scapulars black or brown shafted; the upper 
and middle back,the whole of the axillaries, the lower coverts 
at the elbow joint of the wing, and many of those of the lower 
surface of the wing immediately over the ulnaandthe meta- 
carpal bones, a delicate but rather dull vinaceous pink ; the 
longer scapulars, tail feathers, tertials and secondaries brown, 
very much silvered, the latter on their outer webs only, with 
grey; the secondary greater coverts similar, primaries, their 
greater coverts and the spurious wing blackish brown. 
Another bird, not fully adult, killed on 10th November, is 
thus noticed in my journal: Length, 58” ; expanse, 92”; wing, 
22”; tail from vent, 7-5”; tarsus, 3°5"; bill at front, 13”; gular 
pouch to where feathers commence, 20.” Legs and feet pale plum- 
beous, mottled on joints and inner side of tarsus and tibia 
with cream white; irides brown; orbits cream white, a semi- 
circle round the lower half of orbits blue ; upper mandible 
unifurm pale pinkish, with a conspicuous row of purplish brown 
spots on each side from base to tip; lower mandible, at base, 
and gular pouch pale café-au-lait color; rest of lower man- 
dible a fleshy brown. The plumage was generally very similar 
to that of the bird just described, but there was no crest, no 
yellowish tinge at the base of the neck in front, and only 
afaint vinaceous tinge on the back, flanks and axillaries. 
Another bird, killed the same day and of almost precisely 
the same size, had the legs and feet almost white, with a 
creamy tinge ; irides brown ; the orbits pale yellowish but with 
traces of the blue mark; the upper mandible livid pinkish, with 
a blue tinge on the basal half; a row of obscure bluish spots on 
either side of the culmen; nail pale yellow ; lower mandible and 
pouch pinky white. The extraordinary difference in the color of 
the soft parts of two birds killed on the same day, at the same 
place and of the same size and sex, struck me forcibly at the 
time. I concluded that both were young, but that the latter 
bird had progressed more rapidly towards the adult plumage. 
A very young bird has the whole head and neck mingled 
greyish white and pale ferruginous ; a few short brown feathers, 
beginning at the occiput and running about 4 inches down the 
back of the neck, growing shorter as they recede from the occi- 
put, form asort of mane. The whole of the scapulary region, 
