404 PELICAN. 



face and fore part of the head naked and bare; the nape and hind 

 part of the neck black, passing round just above the breast, as a 

 collar; feathers of the nape a trifle elongated ; the breast and thighs 

 grey and black in fine streaks ; all the under parts of the body from 

 the breast black ; upper parts, wings, and tail, greyish white ; legs 

 reddish brown. 



The above description taken from drawings in the collection 

 of the late Mr. Bruce, supposed to have been met with in Abyssinia. 

 It appears to be the same as that figured in the PI. enlum. above 

 referred to. M. Buflbn, under his article Pelican brun,* refers to 

 this plate, though he does not at all describe the bird. But sup- 

 posing he could mean that mentioned above from Mr. Bruce's 

 drawings, he must have been indulged with a copy of it by that 

 gentleman; who certainly displayed his drawings in Paris, before we 

 had a sight of them in England. On this account we have some 

 reason for supposing it not to be of American origin. Mr. Bruce's 

 bird was named Gungunnah ; and one not far different, in the late 

 Mr. Middleton's India drawings, was called Gungunneer. 



8.— RED-BACKED PELICAN. 



Pelecavms rufescens, hid. Orn. ii. 884. Gm. Lin. i. 571. 

 Red-backed Pelican, Gen. Syn. vi. 584. 



SIZE of a large Swan ; length five feet. Bill thirteen inches 

 long, of a pale dirty yellow ; space round the eyes, and pouch the 

 same ; the last reaches eight inches down the neck; the hindhead is 

 crested, some of the feathers four inches in length ; head and neck 

 dirty brownish white ; back fine pale reddish cinnamon ; wing 

 coverts like the neck, but darker; lesser quills the same, with dark 

 grey ends, and black shafts; scapulars pale greyish lead-colour; 

 prime quills black ; tail deep grey, the shafts white at the base, and 



* Hist. des. Ois. iii. 306. 



