AMERICAN PELICAN. 
Brisson's Philippine Pelican is described as 
being *' above grey cinereous, below white, 
and the rump of the same colour ; the head and 
neck bright whitish, with a longitudinal bar 
on the upper part of the neck variegated with 
brown and whitish; the greater wing-quills 
cinereous blackish ; the tail-quills cinereous 
white, their shafts being blackish, and the la- 
teral ones a bright white at their origki.'* 
Our American Pelican has the wliole head 
and neck covered with white feathers ; the 
feathers on the back are small, white at their 
shafts, and of a dusky black ash-colour on 
their sides, all terminating in points ; the tail 
is ash-coloured; the great quills of the wings 
are black; the lesser coverts of the wintrs are 
white in their middles, edged with cinereous ; S 
and the breast, bcllv, and sides, are of a dark j 
ash-colour, approaching to black, without j 
any intermixture of llglu colours. Tlic legs, 5 
which arc sluu t, arc of a dirty yellow greenish I 
colour ; and the claws are duskv. I 
Tlie American Pelican is fomid from the i 
Antilles, and Terra Firma, the Isthmus of Pa-- 
nama, 
