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who fail to the Eafl Indies, becaufe, though 

 they frequently fettle on {hips, yet they 

 never fly away if any one attempts to catch 

 them ; but only cry out, bite, and fpout out 

 the train-oil, or fimes, which they have fwal- 

 lowed. Such a bird we caught to-day with 

 our hands, which enabled me to know it better 

 than merely by name. It was the male of the 



Pel ec anus Pifcator Linn. Its bill is 

 pointed, elevated, narrow, blueifh on the out- 

 fide, has a ferrated margin, and is two palms 

 long : the throat and all about its eyes are 

 without feathers, and covered, as the bill, 

 with a blueifli fkin : the upper jaw is elevated, 

 and has on both fides a furrow running towards 

 the points which is bent, and has a promi- 

 nence : near the head the bill has an elevated 

 part : the lower jaw is narrow and ftreight j 

 the tongue, which is fattened to it, is arrow- 

 fhaped : the cere is light blue : the nojlrils 

 are wanting, unlefs the notch at the bafe of 

 the bill can be taken for them : the pupils of 

 the eyes are black : their hides are white, 

 and furrounded with black : the bead, the 

 neck, back, the upper fide of the wing, and 

 the inner margin thereof, together with the 

 tailj are quite black : the breajl, the belly, 



and 



