PELICAN. 



413 



in the greater one, but the nostrils are clearly distinguishable, being 

 about half an inch in length, rather broader at the part which is 

 next the base. This has a light red pouch at the chin and throat, 

 as in the former species. It is most likely that this is a male bird ; 

 as others, said to be of the opposite sex, have little or no traces of 

 the jugular pouch.* Some have supposed, that the Greater and 

 Lesser Frigates are the same bird, in different periods of age. 



15— WHITE-HEADED FRIGATE PELICAN. 



Pelecanus leucocephalus, Ind. Orn. ii. 886. Gm. Lin. i. 572. Amcen. Acad. \v. 238 ? 



Osb. Voy. ii. 87 ? Lin. Trans, xiii. 330. 

 La Fregate, Buf. viii. pi. 30. 

 White-headed Frigate Pelican, Gen. Syn. vi. 591. 



LENGTH nearly three feet. Bill five inches long, dusky, tip 

 nearly white ; both mandibles hooked ; sides of the head covered 

 with feathers; head and fore part of the neck white, finishing in a 

 point on the last; breast and belly white; except these, the rest of 

 the plumage is brown ; tail forked ; legs pale reddish brown. 



In the Museum of the late Dr. Hunter, from whence uncertain. 



A. — In the same collection was one, with the head and half the 

 neck all round white, passing before down the breast, and ending 

 between the legs ; sides of the body, the vent, and rest of the 

 plumage, brown ; legs reddish brown ; neither of the two were bare 

 on the sides of the head, with very little appearance of a pouch 

 under the lower mandible. This is probably the one met with in 

 Sumatra, and there called Danding Laut. 



* This supposition seems justified from a pair in the late Hunterian Musuem, in both of 

 which the plumage was wholly black ; the one has a large pouch, the other destitute of it. 



