PELICAN. 



hefitate to continue here as fpecies, thofe mentioned as fuch by 

 former authors, till new and fufficient lights fhall have enabled 

 future writers to unite them with confidence. 



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Le Pelican bran de l'Ifle de Lucon,. Son. Voy. p. 91. t. 53. 



HP HIS is exactly like the rofe-coloured Pelican, except in the 

 plumage being wholly of a brown-colour. 

 Inhabits Manilla with the above-mentioned. Mr. Sonnerat 

 fufpects both thefe to be the fame, but the one here defcribed not 

 yet come to full age, as is the cafe in the Flamingo, Scarlet Ibis, 

 and fome others. Both thefe make the neft on the ground, and 

 feem very unwieldy while on land ;, yet at times fly very high. 

 Their fleih is rank and bad. 



MANILLA P. 

 Description, 



Place anh> 

 Mannehs, 



Le Pelican des Philippines, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 527. 3. pi. 46. 



HP HIS is nearly four feet and a quarter in length. The bill 

 fourteen inches long, the colour reddifh white, with a few 

 fpots of brown on the fides of the upper mandible : the bare fpace 

 round the eyes of the colour of the bill : the pouch very pale : 

 the head and neck are whitifh : from the hind head to the back 

 is a flripe of feathers fomewhat longer than the reft, mixed white 

 and brown ; thofe of the hind head ftill longer, fo as to form a 

 creft -, the feathers of all thefe parts very foft and filky : the up- 

 per part of the back and fcapulars cinereous grey : the lower 

 part of the neck, the breaft, and under parts, the lower part 

 of the back, and rump, white : th« wing coverts cinereous 



grey y 



PHILIPPINE P, 

 Description. 



