PELICAN. 



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black towards the ends; belly, thighs, under wing coverts, and vent, 

 like the back, but pale; the feathers of the breast, wing coverts, 

 and lower part of the neck, are long, narrow, and pointed, especially 

 those of the breast ; legs yellow. 



This bird I received from Mr. Lewis, Navy Surgeon, who in- 

 formed me, that he had it alive from the Governor of one of our 

 Forts on the Gold Coast, where it had been kept tame for a long 

 time ; it was reckoned a scarce bird, by reason of its being crested. 



9— BROWN PELICAN. 



Pelecanus fuscus, Ind. Orn. ii. 883. Lin. i. 215. 1. /3. Gm. Lin.'u b70. Georgi, 169. 

 Onocrotalus fuscus, Bris. x\. 524. Id. 8vo. ii. 499. Rail, 191.3. Sloan. Jam. 322. 



Brown, Jam. 480. Klein, 142. 1. 

 Onocrotalus Ainericanus, Gerin. v. t. 500. Bartr. Tr. 293. 

 Pelican brun, Buf. viii. 306 ? 



Pelican of America, Edw. pi. 93. Ellis's Huds. Bay, i. pi. 1. 

 Great Gull, Hist. Califom. i. p. 40. 

 Brown Pelican, Gen. Syn. vi. 580. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 506. Gent. Mag. xx. pi. p. 210. 



THIS is in length nearly four feet. Bill fifteen inches, at the 

 base greenish blue, mixed with a little red near the end ; the pouch 

 bluish ash-colour, streaked with reddish lines ; irides deep bluish 

 ash ; bare skin round the eyes whitish ; the head and neck white; 

 the first a little crested at the back part ; back, scapulars, and rump, 

 cinereous brown, the middle of each feather whitish ; breast and 

 under parts like the upper, but plain ; wing coverts like the back ; 

 but some of the outer greater ones plain brown ; the shape of most 

 of the above feathers pointed, narrow, and long ; prime quills black ; 

 the secondaries hoary brown ; tail the same, and consists of eighteen 

 feathers ; legs lead-colour ; claws black. 



This appears to be the bird called a Gull, in the History of 

 California, and found in vast numbers in that place, the Isle of 

 Assumption and San Roche ; said to have a vast craw, hanging 



