AMERICAN PELICAN. 
be smaller than the white. Those seen by El- 
lis, and others, near Hudson's Bay, v/ere also 
smaller, and of a dusky cast ; so that their 
white is not occasioned by the severity of the 
chmate. The same variety of colour is ob- 
served in the hot countries of the ancient con- 
tinent. Sonnerat, after having described two 
Pelicans of the Philippine islands — the one 
brown, and the other rose-coloured — expres- 
ses a suspicion, that he had only viewed the 
same bird at different ages. 
This opinion of BufFon^s, he observes, is 
confirmed by the circumstance of Brisson's 
having given a Philippine Pelican ; which 
seems to form the intermediate shade, being 
not wholly either grey or brown, but having 
only the wings, with part of the back, of that 
colour, and the rest white. 
For our parts, however, w^e should not be 
surprised, if this Philippine Pelican of Bris- 
iSon, as it is called, should be no other than 
lour American Pelican. I.ct the readers judge 
'for themselves, from the folio v*ing descriptions 
of both. 
Brisson's 
