502 OUR INDIAN PELICANS. 
‘bill 15°5 at, front; wing to end of tertials (all primaries 
destroyed), 27:25; bill, 175 wide, above, at widest place; 
1:36 wide or a little more at narrowest place ; about 1°5 down 
the culmen. All the scapulars, but one or two, pure white, 
these one or two silvery dusky at base, and with a blackish 
blue on the outer margin and with another corresponding 
Jine on the inner web running from the margin to the point. 
Another specimen, labelled 1741, no other label, bill at front, 
from edge of skin as before, 11:12; greatest width, 1°62; least 
width, same as in preceding; no crest; breast densely set with 
ferruginous plumes, harsh in texture and with disunited webs; 
bill differs in color in this specimen ; culmen, ridge and sides of 
basal half of lower mandible nearly uniform with the rest of 
the bill. In the first specimen these parts are very dark 
purplish brown, many of the scapulars margined with black 
line; wing to end of tertials, 24. 
In both these specimens, though there is no crest, the feathers 
from either side form an occipital and nuchal crest-like ridge. 
Another specimen, labelled 1740 on stand, and no other label 
(named onocratalus according to the catalogue, though no entire 
specimen of this species is acknowledged im the catalogue) ; bili 
length, 11°75; greatest width, 1°55 ; least width, 1:3; a distinct 
occipital crest, 3:5; followed by a ridge similar to that in 
preceding specimens. 
A straw-colored breast patch, wing perfect, 25°75; two or 
three of the scapulars margined with black. 
Comparing these three specimens with Jerdon’s descriptions, 
Ihave no doubt that these formed the types of his supposed 
three species. No. 1 is his onocrotalus, No. 2 his javanicus, No. 
3 his mitratus. 
Now No. 1 is a young male and No. 3 an adult, but 
not fully adult, female. No. 2 I take to be an old female, but 
I have never seen anything quite likeit. I believe that the 
crest had been pulled out (as natives often pull them out) 
before Blyth got the bird, and I believe the extraordinary 
ferruginous colour to be due to some post mortem changes. 
I have never seen this color ina fresh specimen. 
AA TE 
