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white, gaining by degrees a reddish tinge ; and at a still more 

 advanced period, becoming wholly of a rose-colour.* 



A tame one, in this last dress, made part of a travelling exhibition 

 not long since. The bill and pouch were pale ; head, neck, and 

 body, fine rose-colour ; wing coverts the same, but dusky ; scapulars, 

 and second quills, margined with black ; greater quills wholly 

 black; legs brown. 



2.— ROSE-COLOURED PELICAN. 



Pelecanus roseus, hid. Om. ii. 883. Gm. Lin. i. 570. 

 Pelican rose de I'lsle tie Lu<jon, Son. Voy. p. 91. t. 54. 

 Rose-coloured Pelican, Gen. Syn. vi. 579. 



SIZE of a Goose. Bill black ; round the eyes bare and yellow ; 

 pouch the same ; the plumage wholly rose-colour ; legs black. 



Inhabits the Isle of Manilla. In the Leverian Museum I 

 formerly observed one greatly corresponding, in which the whole 

 of the plumage, including the quills, was white; the bill black, with 

 some red markings near the end, and the hook also red ; the pouch, 

 space round the eyes, and legs, yellow. No further account could 

 be obtained. It is supposed by many that the Rose-coloured one is 

 merely a very old bird of the white species ; but if so, there must 

 have been much change in the quills, which are in all others 

 described black ; nor do we find the bill, except in the present one, 

 otherwise than brown, or yellow. 



3 —MANILLA PELICAN. 



Pelecanus Manillensis, Ind. Om. ii. 883. Gm. Lin. i. 571. Lin. Trans, xiii. 330. 

 Pelican brun de I'lsle de Lucon, Son. Voy. p. 91. pi. 53. 

 Manilla Pelican, Gen. Syn.\\. 583. 



THIS is exactly like the Rose-coloured, except in the plumage, 

 being wholly brown, and is probably a young bird. 



Inhabits Manilla, also Sumatra, and there called Lampipi. 



* Sonnerat. Said to live 100 years. 



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