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Pelecanus Onocrotalus, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 575. 1.—Ger. Orn. v. t. 499. 
Great White Pelican, Gen. Sya. vi. p. 575. I. 
FE have elfewhere mentioned doubts, whether the various co= 
loured Pelicans of the eaftern and fouthern oceans were truly 
diftin&, mere varieties of each other, fexual differences, or arifing 
from age only. In Lady Jmpey’s drawings, is the figure of one met 
with in Jadia, with the-head white, fpeckled with black : wing coverts 
reddifh brown: prime quills and tail dufky: breaft and belly white, 
marked with great fpots of pale yellow: legs whitifh, ‘This fame 
bird, in Mr. Middleton’s drawings, is named Gungunneer. I obferved 
alfo among the drawings of Mr. Bruce, one fimilar, by the name of 
Gunguunah: the general colour of this was white: belly even with 
the thighs; the thighs themfelves, and vent black ; wings black and 
white fpoited: bill pale red, much hooked at the tip of the upper 
mandible: irides red: legs black. 
The New Holland one is feven feet from the tip of one wing to that 
of the other: the bill yellow: round the eye bare and yellow; but - 
between the bill and eye feathered: the plumage in general is white: 
the beginning of the back, and all the quills black: legs blue. 
It is called by the natives Karrangaba. I muft not omit to mention 
the beautiful foft down which lies immediately under the feathers of 
this fpecies, Mr, Barrow* notices the circumftance in refpect to the 
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