584 PELICAN. 



grey, with the lhafts and margins white ; the outer greater ones, 

 and baftard wing, darker, almoft black : quills duflcy black ; the 

 bafe of many of the fecondaries white : tail compofed of eighteen 

 feathers, colour greyifh white ; all but the two middle ones white 

 on the inner webs at the bafe ; fhafts black : legs red. 

 Place. This inhabits the Philippine IJlands, and is probably the bird 



known there by the name of Alcatraz* . The natives fay that 

 the fkin of the breaft, drefied with the feathers on, has a fweet 

 fmell ; and, being worn on the ftomach of any one afflicted 

 with the ajlhma, proves a remedy for the fame. 



6. C I Z E of a large Swan: length five feet. Bill thirteen inches 



j- RED-BACKED O & . °. > 



P_ long* formed as in other Pelicans, and or a pale dirty yellow : 



Description. fpace round the eyes, and pouch, the fame; the laft reaches eight 

 inches down the neck : the hind head is crefted, fome of the fea- 

 thers four inches in length : the head and neck dirty brownifh 

 white : the back of a fine pale reddifh cinnamon-colour : the 

 wing coverts like the neck, but darker : fcapulars pale greyifh 

 lead-colour : lefTer quills not unlike the wing coverts, but the 

 ends dark grey and the fhafts black: prime quills black : tail of 

 a deep grey, the fhafts white at the bafe, and black towards the 

 ends : the belly, thighs, under wing coverts, and vent, like the 

 back, but much paler : the feathers of the breaft, wing coverts, 

 and lower part of the neck, are long, narrow, and pointed, efpe- 

 cially thofe of the breaft : the legs are yellow. 



This bird was fent to me by Mr. Lewis, navy Jurgeon, who 

 informed me that he had it alive from the governor of one of 



* Phil, Tranf. vol. xxiii. p. 13941 N° 40. 



our 



