PELICAN. 



40.3 



Inhabits the Philippine Islands, and is probably the bird known 

 there by the name of Alcatraz, and by the inhabitants Pagala. The 

 natives say, that the skin of the breast, dressed with the feathers on, 

 has a sweet smell ; and being worn on the stomach of a person 

 afflicted with the asthma, proves a remedy for the same : is very 

 common at Bengal. We are informed by Dr. Buchanan that it 

 roosts in large trees in remote places. In the day time frequents 

 lakes and marshes, to collect fish. It is the Garapulla of the Ben- 

 galese; Gogaubhere of the Mussulmans. Found also in Java, and 

 called there Walang-kadda. The Bengalese name signifies the small 

 fishing-basket ; that of the Mussulmans, in the Hindustany dialect, 

 means a bird that reaches the sky, for it often flies very high. 



6.-JAVAN PELICA1N. 



Pelecanus Javanicus, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 197.— Horsfield. 



THIS is four feet in length. The plumage white, with an 

 obsolete crest, and a broad bill ; the prime quills black, the secon- 

 daries and feathers of the back margined with black, and the shafts 

 white. — Inhabits Java, and called Bakkul. In the Leverian Museum 

 was one greatly corresponding with the above. In this the bill was 

 yellow ; plumage white, except the quills which were dusky black, 

 and the shafts white ; the tail white, the two middle feathers a trifle 

 shorter than the others ; legs black. 



7— BLACK-BELLIED PELICAN. 



Pelican brun d'Amerique, PL enl. 957. 



SIZE large.* Bill pale red; irides red ; pouch beneath the 

 throat large and pale; head and neck before to the breast white; 



* By the scale in the plate being one-twelfth of the real size, the length should be at 

 least five feet. 



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