5 36 PELICAN. 



neck, and under parts, brownifti white : the lower half of the 

 back, in one fpecimen, ftriped black and dufky white j the fea- 

 thers narrow, and edged with the laft colour: in the other, the 

 back of a plain colour : the bag in both of an enormous fize, 

 taking up the greateft part of the neck before : at the hind part 

 of it, the whole length, the feathers much longer than the reft; 

 though the nape of the neck, or back part of the head, were not 

 at all crefted. 

 Placi. Thefe laft were brought from Cayenne. 



S. Br. M«f. Lev. Muf. 



h ROUGH-BILL- 



pn p 



_ CIZE between a Goofe and a Swan : length four feet fix inches. 



Description. O j . . 



Bill thirteen inches, fhaped as in other Pelicans, with the ad- 

 dition of fome fingular protuberances on the top of the upper 

 mandible; from the bafe of which, for above (even inches, the fur- 

 face is plain, as in other Pelicans ; at this part an elevated ridge 

 begins, of about an inch and a half in height, and one-third of an 

 inch in thicknefs ; this continues about an inch and a half on the 

 bill, and then other fmaller ones take rife, of different fizes, and 

 continue growing fmaller in an abrupt manner to the end of 

 the bill ; the colour of the bill and ridge is reddifh yellow, here 

 and there inclining more to red : the under mandible and pouch 

 as in other fpecies ; but on each fide, about the middle of the 

 firft, is a black fpot the fize of a filver fenny, and the bag 

 is ftreaked with fine lines of black, which are pretty numerous 

 on the fore part of it, moft fo next the end of the bill : the plu- 

 mage of the bird is wholly of a pure white, except the greater 

 quills, which are black ; at the hind head the feathers are greatly 



elongated, 



