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COMMON PELICAN. 



Philippine Pelican. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 583. Lath. Gen. Hist. 

 X. 402. 



Rose-coloured Pelican. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 579. Lath. Gen. 

 Hist. X. 401. 



Variety ? 2.— Pelecanus Manillensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.571. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 883. 

 Le Pelecan brun de lisle de Lu^on. Sonner. Voy. Ind, 71. 



pi. 53. 



Manilla Pelican. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 583. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 

 401. 



This is a very large species, measuring nearly six 

 feet in length, and expanding about fifteen feet : its 

 beak is nearly sixteen inches long ; its upper man- 

 dible is flat and broad, furnished with a hook at the 

 end ; the skin between the sides of the upper man- 

 dible is very flaccid and dilatable, reaching eight or 

 nine inches down the neck, and naked : the gape is 

 very wide ; on the top of the under mandible runs a 

 crimson rib ; the rest of it is pale red at the base, 

 and yellowish towards the point ; the under one is 

 pale red, and the pouch is red or yellowish : the 

 tongue is very small : the irides are hazel : the sides 

 of the head are naked and flesh-coloured : the occiput 

 is slightly crested : the entire plumage is white, 

 slightly tinged with flesh-colour, the spurious wiBgs 

 and primary quills, which are black, excepted : the 

 legs are flesh-colour : claws grey. The young have 

 the beak and naked parts round the eyes livid : the 

 irides brown : the prevailing colour of the plumage 

 ashy-white : the belly whitish : the wings and back of 

 a very deep ash : all the feathers edged with brighter 

 ash : the quills are blackish-ash. 



Found throughout the greater portion of the an- 



