238 RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST. 
salmon-tinted bird, measuring 108 inches from tip to tip. 
It was shot on the 9th of April. The tarsus was 53 inches, 
carpus 263, culmen 18, length 59. Legs yellow, eye brownish 
red—not so bright red as in the examples at the Zoological 
gardens. The whole body, wings included, was covered with 
large air-cells. 
Pelicans do very well in confinement, and I was told at Men- 
zaleh that they could be caught alive more easily than shot. 
Hasselquist says, “The inhabitants of Damietta make a 
vessel out of the upper part of the beak, with which they 
bale the water out of their boats.” I should have thought 
the lower part more adapted for the purpose. 
Before leaving Egypt I purchased a young Pelican which 
had been shot at Suez. It is dark brown all over, and 
appears to me to be hardly full grown. The bill is 143, 
and the wing 26 inches. 
%213. Pelicanus minor, Rupp.; P. mitratus, Licht. 
On the 15th of April a pair of Pelicans were discovered 
sitting upon a sandbank near Thebes, and Mr. Buxton shot 
the smaller of the pair. It measured—length 48 inches, 
culmen 12, wing from carpus 26, tarsus 5, expanse 104. It 
was pure white in colour without any tinge of roseate, but 
it had the usual yellow feathers on the breast, and two of 
the secondary quills were white. The crest was nearly four 
inches long. The living specimen of P. minor in the 
Zoological Gardens has at present no crest (September, 
1875). The one we got had the usual air-cells over the 
whole body, and in its pouch a parasitical worm. 
214. DALMATIAN PELICAN, Pelicanus’ crispus, Bruch. ; 
“ Bagah.” 
Possibly some of the. Pelicans we saw at Damietta were 
