504 OBSERVATIONS ON THE PELICAN 
changes of plumage that the bird to which my specimens 
belong undergoes are as follows: The young bird has its 
scapulars and wing-coverts of a dirty pale brown; irides a 
greyish straw yellow; orbital region, bill and legs of a dusky 
livid leaden color, the bill and legs being the darker, especially 
the,latter ;, the pouch is a pale greyish yellow. In the next 
stage of plumage the scapulars and wing-coverts, in fact the 
whole bird, becomes a pure silvery white with a moderate 
crest of long curly white feathers; the orbital region greyish 
white, with occasional dark purple blotches ; bill, taisus and toes 
a greyish pink, the two latter having a faint purple tinge, the 
toes being the darkest. The plumage gradually changes to a 
light silver and finally to a deep silver grey ; the crest is fully 3 to 
4 inches long. The orbital region is a livid purple; the 
irides a pale straw yellow; bill a greyish pink; tarsus 
and toes the same but darker ;the pouch from being a pale 
greyish yellow becomes adeep yellow, and finally a deep ver- 
milion orange. 
Ihave watched large flocks of this species through my 
glasses from a distance of about 100 yards, and could trace the 
bird through all its different stages very plainly, some being 
of a light grey color with a part of the pouch deep vermilion 
orange, the remainder being a deep yellow ; others were of a 
deep grey, with the whole of the pouch deep vermilion orange. 
I regret I have been unable to get one of these full adult birds, 
which from the description in Jerdon I should have thought 
would belong to P. philippensis, The birds I saw in large 
flocks, and out of which my specimens were killed, were, I feel 
convinced, all the same kind. Can it be that the bird recorded 
from Sind with the spots on the upper mandible is the full 
adult of crispus,or am I wrong in identifying any birds as 
erispus when they should be young of philippensis ? I have no 
doubt Mr. Hume will, in due course of time, give us his opinions 
on the specimens I have sent him belonging to this species, as 
well as those of the next, which I will now proceed to discuss. 
At first I was under the impression there were two kinds of 
Pelican whose frontal feathers ended in a point, viz., the small 
pink and the large pink. The small white and large white 
Pelican I always thought to be the young of these two, and 
this turns out to be correct. Now, after shooting and care- 
fully sexing over 80 specimens of the above, it is clearly evi- 
dent that there is, so far as these districts are concerned, only 
one kind of Pelican belonging to this species, of which the 
small pink Pelican is the female and the large pink the male. 
Of the former I have sent four skins and of the latter eight 
to Mr. Hume for identification, as I am unable to say what the 
scientific name of the bird should be. Comparing my skins 
