NEW HOLLAND PELICAN. 113 



skin round the eyes whitish : the head and neck are 

 white : the former somewhat crested on the occiput : 

 the back, scapulars, and rump are ashy-brown, the 

 middle of each feather whitish: the breast and under 

 parts are similar to the upper, but plain : the upper 

 wing-coverts like the back, with some of the outer 

 greater ones plain brown : the primaries are black ; 

 the secondaries hoary-brown : tail the same : legs 

 lead-colour ; claws black. 



Common in most parts of America, especially in 

 the West India Islands. 



NEW HOLLAND PELICAN. 



(Pelecanus Alistralis.) 



Pe. albus dorso supremo, remigibus cauddque nigris. 



White Pelican with the upper part of the back, the quills and tail 



black. 

 New Holland Pelican. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 402. 



Length five feet : beak and round the eye yellow : 

 general colour of the plumage white : the beginning 

 of the back, the quills and tail black : inner half of 

 the lesser wing-coverts white : legs pale blue ; webs 

 dusky : the quills reach to about the middle of the 

 tail. Inhabits New Holland. 



v. xiii. p. I. 



