402 PELICAN. 



4.-NEYV-HOLLAND PELICAN. 



LENGTH five feet, extent of wings seven. Bill, and round 

 the eye, yellow ; plumage in general white ; the beginning of 

 the back, the quills, and tail, black ; inner half of the lesser wing 

 coverts white; legs pale blue; webs dusky; the quills reach to 

 above the middle of the tail. 



Inhabits New-Holland, known by the name of Karrang-aba. 



5— PHILIPPINE PELICAN. 



Pelecanus Philippeosis, Ind. Orn.W. 883. Got. Lin. i. 571. Tern. Man. 685. Id. 



Ed. 2d. 892, Lin. Trans, xiii. 197. 330. 

 Onocrotalus Philippensis, Bris. vi. 527. t. 46. Id. 8vo. ii. 500. 

 Alcatraz, Phil. Trans, xxiii. p. 1397. 40. 

 Philippine Pelican, Gen. Syn. vi. 583. 



THIS exceeds four feet in length. The bill fourteen inches 

 long, and reddish white, on the top a strong rib running down the 

 middle, on each side of which are fourteen or fifteen oblique dusky 

 marks, having the appearance of a saw ; the bare space round the 

 eyes the colour of the bill ; the pouch very pale ; head and neck 

 whitish ; from the hindhead to the back a stripe of feathers some- 

 what longer than the rest, mixed white and brown ; those of the 

 hindhead still longer, so as to form a crest ; the plumage of all 

 these parts very soft and silky; the upper parts of the back, and 

 scapulars, cinereous grey ; the lower, and rump, white; wing coverts 

 cinereous grey, with the shafts and margins white ; the outer greater 

 ones, and bastard wing, darker, almost black ; quills dusky black ; 

 base of many of the secondaries white; tail, composed of eighteen 

 feathers, greyish white ; all but the two middle ones white within at 

 the base, shafts black ; legs red. 



