6zo G A N N E T. Class II. 



Booby •, his defcription fuits that of the young Gan- 

 nett but the angle on the lower mandible made 

 us formerly fufpect that it was not the fame bird ; 

 but from fome late informations we have been fa- 

 vored with, we find it is common to both coun- 

 tries, and during fummer frequents North America. 

 Like the Penguin, it informs navigators of the ap- 

 proach of foundings, who on fight of it drop the 

 plummet. Linnaus claffes our bird with the Pete- 

 can -, in the tenth edition of his fyftem, he con- 

 founds it with the bird defcribed by Sir Hans 

 Shane, hift. Jam. vol. I. p. 31. preface, whofe 

 colors differ from the Gannet in each ftage of life : 

 but in his laft edition he very properly feparates 

 them. We continue it in the fame clafs, under the 

 generical name of Corvorants, as more familiar to 

 the Englifh ear than that of Pelecan. 



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