PELICAN. 



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mage on the upper parts of the head and neck brown black: 

 middle of the back and rump glofly black: fcapulars and wing 

 coverts blue grey, each feather margined all round, and tipped 

 with black : the three firft greater quills pale brown, inclining to 

 cinnamon j the reft brown black: fecondaries as long as the 

 quills, of a dufky black, edged with brown : the tail confifts of 

 twelve feathers, is cuneiform in fhape, the two middle feathers 

 being feven inches long, the outer three inches and a half only; 

 the four middle ones, and the outer on each fide, are pale brown, 

 the others black : the chin is white : fore part of the neck mot- 

 tled dufky white and black : belly much the fame, with a mixtuce 

 of brown : legs black. 

 Inhabits Africa. 



PtACF. 



Pelecanus pygmasus, Pallas Tra<v. ii. p. 712. N° 16. t. G. 



'"THIS fpecies is fcarcely fo big as. a Teal. The bill, legs, and 

 fhape, exactly correfponding with thofe of the Shag : the 

 body black, with a caft of green about the neck and breaft : wing 

 coverts obfcure brown, each feather margined with glofiy black : 

 about the eyes dotted with white, but the fpots not very nume- 

 rous : on the neck, breaft, and fides, are alfo a few fcattered fpots, 

 which arife from pencils of very tender hairs of that colour, 

 which are intermixed, and appear here and there among the fea- 

 thers : the tail is compofed of twelve feathers, is ftiff, long, and 

 cuneiform, as in the Shag. 



The female is wholly brown, or of a dull black, and not 

 fpotted. 



This 



24. 

 DWARF SH. 



Descriptisw. 



Female* 



