viduals which undoubtediv belonged to the 
same specie.^. Some, it is observed in Me- 
moires de r.Vcademie des Sciences," had their 
plumage entirely white, with a light and trans- 
parent cast of flesh-colour; except the wings, 
the great quills of which had a tinge of grey 
and black : the rest were of a much more de- 
cided flesh or rose-colour. 
These intermingled colours, however, are 
so little removed from a general grey or brown 
cast, that Klein does not hesitate positively to 
assert, that the Brown and the White Pehcans 
are only varieties of the same species. Sir 
Hans Sloanc, who had carefully observed the 
Brown Pelicans of America, confesses also that 
they appeared to be the same with the White 
or Common Pelican. Oviedo, too, speaking 
of the Pelicans with a cinereous plumage, 
which are seen on tlie rivers of the Antilles, 
remarks that some of them are of a very fine 
white. 
BuiFon inclines to think, that the brown co- 
lour, is the garb of the young ones ; for the 
Brown Pelicans have general! v been found to 
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