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The Natural Hiftory of J A MAAC A. 
CrHrape. Hb 
—. Of Water-Fowl, or fach as ‘are Web-footed amk'Swims\ | 6 4. 
OS ML ost a oun wien SAWALBRAD ew Soe ack PANS ey wht 
Ob OB rs H 
I. Nocratalus five Pelecanus fufcus. Ratj. fyn. p. 191. Alcatrazes 
grandes de la Ifla Efpandla. de:Ovredo lib, 14. cap. 6. Grand 
Gofier. de Rechef. p. 165. de Du Tertre. 271. Alcatraz. Col. f. 32. & 43- 
es So Monger Oh dee. cp 0 
ahs 0 The Pelecan. 
This: feem’d to be the fame with the white Pelecan, only of a 
dark ‘Colour. ae 
They are frequent in all the Seas.of the hot We/f-Indies, they fifh 
after the fame manner..as Men of War Birds, and come. into.the 
fhelter’d Bayes in‘ ftormy Weather, where: they very often pearch cn 
Trees. ‘They fly over the Sea as Gulls, and take the Fifh when they {py 
them, by falling down upon them, and they then’ rife again and:do 
the like, and are not reckon’d good Food. ! | 
When they are feen at Sea, it is a Sign of being near Land. Col. 
WY. Anfert Baffano congener fufca. avis. Tab.271. Fig. 2: An Fauves de 
Rochef. p. 164°Aa Fous de DusFersvre. pe (295° Rabi horcados gut tienen 
da color de uh negro que tira a pardo ruvio, y el pecho G la cabexs 
blanca y el papo abwtardo de leonado.. ‘Oviedo. lib. 14. cap, 1? 
This is very near-.the fame with the Bird call’d a Booby, is taken 
very often with them, and is darker Coloured. 
III. Larus cinereus masimus, the Herring Gull, Raij. fymipi 497. 
Mauves de Du Tertre. p. 274. Gaviotas de Oviedo. lib, 14. cap. 2. 
Guacaguacu. Maregr. p. 205. ed. 1648. Wellughbop. 352. 
4 
ae The ie ommon:Gull. 
Thefe are very common about the Bayes of this Ifland, which by 
what I obferv’d at Diftance.xby their “flying, ¢c. differ not from the 
Gull, cal?d in England the Herring Guil. 
The Indians in the ‘Caribes take ‘them and throw them with their 
Entrails and Feathers into the Fire, where a Cruft is gather’d about 
them, by the burnt Feathers,*and in it the Fowl is roa{ted, which 
they eat after taking out the Guts. Dw Tertre, | 
IVs! Colymbus five podicipes minor.. ‘Willughb. Mh l. sp 40. 
Tab, 61. Tab. 271. Fig. 1. Raij. Sym. pe 125.  19¢. ees 
This was about eight Inches long from the end of the Bill to that 
of the Body, it having no Tail, and about fourteen from the end ot 
ong Wing to the end of the other extended, the Feathers of the 
Wings 
