BROWN PELICAN. 385 



the fifth, secondaries very numerous, rather small, rounded, the mner 

 longer and more tapering. Tail short, slightly rounded, of twenty-two 

 feathers. 



Bill greyish-white, tinged with brown, and marked with irregular 

 spots of pale carmine ; upper mandible dusky towards the end, lower 

 blackish from the middle to near the end. Bare space between the bill 

 and the eye deep blue ; eyelids pink ; iris white. Feet black. The 

 gular pouch is greenish-black, the ridges of its wrinkles lighter. The 

 hairlike feathers on the fore part of the head light yellow, the rest of 

 the head white ; a stripe of the same margining the pouch to the middle 

 of the neck, and extending a little beyond, a short space between these 

 two lines anteriorly, and the whole of the posterior and lateral parts of 

 the neck of a dark chestnut brown, the small crest paler. The back 

 and wings are dusky, each feather with the central part greyish-white ; 

 the latter colour prevails on the scapulars and larger wing-coverts. Pri- 

 maries and their coverts brownish-black, secondaries greyish-brown, their 

 outer edges greyish-white ; tail light grey ; the shafts of the quills and 

 tail-feathers are white in their basal half, black towards the end. The 

 lower parts are brownish-grey ; the sides of the neck and body with nar- 

 row longitudinal white lines. On the fore neck, below the dark chest- 

 nut spot is a smaller pale yellow mark, behind which the feathers for a 

 short space are blackish-brown. 



Length to end of tail 52 inches, to end of wings 52, to end of claws 

 53 J ; extent of wings 80 ; bill along the ridge IS^, along the edge of lower 

 mandible 14^ ; depth of gular pouch 10, its extent along the neck 13 ; 

 wing from flexure 24; tail 7; tarsus 2^; middle toe 3^^, its claw ^%. 

 Weight 6 lb. 4^ oz. 



■^ The Female, which is considerably larger, resembles the male in 

 colour, only that the neck is yellowish-white in its whole extent, without 

 any brown, and its feathers are stiff and not downy as in the male. Weight 

 7 lb. 12 oz. 



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