PELICAN. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill strong, straight, and hooked, more or less, at the end. 
Nostrils placed in a longitudinal furrow; very small; some- 
times none. 
Face naked. 
Gullet capable of being distended to a large size. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Pelicanus Onocrotalus. P. albus ; gula saccata. Linn. Syst. 
Nat. Gmel. 1 . p. 596 . 
White ; the throat provided with a 
pouch. 
/3. Onocrotalus rostro denticulato. 
Briss. Av. 6. p. 523. A. 
Pelican Buff. Birds, 8. p. 259 . pi. 217 . Arct. 
Zool. 2. p. 5/8. no. 505. Will. 
Orn. p. 327. pi. 63. Lath. 
Syn. 3. p. 575. no.l. 
The pelicans are provided with a large pouch under 
their chin, and in this they are said to carry water 
to their young when they make their nests in 
the dry deserts : we are told that the lions and 
