580 PELICAN. 



3. Pelecanus onocrotalus (occidentalis), Lin. Sy/l. i. p. 215. 1. {l.—Georgi 



BROWN P. R t ifi, p. 169. 



he Pelican brun, Brsf. Qrn. vi. p. 524. z.—Buf. Oif. viii. p. 306. — PL Ettl. 



N° 957. 

 The Pelecane, Rail Syn. p. 191. ^.—Will. Orn. p. 327. — Sloan. Jam. 



p. 322. 1. — Brown yam. p. 480. 

 Pelican of America, Ediu. pi. 93. — Ellis Hud/. Bay, i. pi. 1. — ArB. Zool. 

 N° 506. 



Br. Mu/. Lev. Muf. 



Dsscription. '"PHIS rather exceeds a Goqfe in fize : length nearly four feet. 

 The bill is fhaped as in other Pelicans, length fifteen inches 

 and a quarter ; at the bafe it is greenifh, but inclines to blue 

 mixed with a little red near the end : the pouch is of a blueilh afh- 

 colour, ftreaked with reddifh lines : irides deep blueifh afh-co- 

 lour : the bare fkin round the eyes whitifh : the head and neck are 

 white ; the firfb a little crefted at the back part : back, fcapulars, 

 and rump, cinereous brown, the middle of each feather whitifh : 

 the breaft and under parts like the upper, but plain : the upper 

 wing coverts like the back ; but fome of the outer greater ones 

 are plain brown : the fhape of rnoft of the above feathers is 

 pointed, narrow, and long : prime quills black ; the fecondaries 

 hoary brown : tail the fame, and confifts of eighteen feathers : 

 legs lead-colour : claws black. 



I apprehend this to be the bird called a Gull in the Hifiory of 

 California* , and found in vail numbers in that place, the IJle of ' Af- 

 fumption, and San Roche. It is faid to equal a very large Gooje in 

 fize, and to have a vaft craw, which in fome hangs down like the 



* Vol. i. p. 40. 



Peruvian 



