slightly depressed, narrow feathers► 
Species . — Pelecanu s onoorotalus L INNAEUS , P. sharpei B ARBOR A 
DU B OCAGE , P. roosevelti , new, and P. roseus Q MELIH . 
Pelecanus roosevelti, new species 
Roosevelt's Roseate Pelican 
Ty^e-specimen .— Adult female. Cat. ITo. 213870, U.S. 'Tat. Mus.; 
shot by Col. Theodore Roosevelt, on the north shore of Lake Eaivasha, 
near ITaivasha Station, on the Uganda Railway (altitude 6,220 feet), 
in British East Africa, July 23, 1909. (Original number, 16360, Mearns 
Specific characters .— A member of the Pelecanus onocrotalus - 
rosens-sharpei group. It has 22 tail-feathers; t-he^-fe.ather-s•• ©£. the' 
pvt at. the, ,XlS> fU i no swelling 
on the forehead; breast-patch ocherous yellow, tinged with chestnut 
during the breeding season; bill remarkable for its breadth and short 
ness. 
Be script ion of type (adult female in breeding plumage).— Gener¬ 
al color white_, strongly tinged with rose; primaries brownish black with 
yellowish-'white shafts; bastard-wing grayish black with vhite shafts; 
outer secondaries blackish, with most of outer webs white; inner sec¬ 
ondaries ash-gray, edged with black on outer and inner edges, with tips 
and outer webs mostly white; feathers of occipital crest narrow and 
straight, the longest measuring 145 by 3 millimeters. The colors of 
the soft parts were noted by the author, from the fresh specimen, as 
follows: irides brown; bill with a broad stripe of gray, mottled vith 
pinkish flesh color, extending from base nearly to end on middle of 
