NORTHERN OCEAN. 
ly follow the plunderer toa confiderable diftance. 
and exprefs their grief by making an unufual 
{creaming noile. 
This bird may be ranked with the elegant part 
of the feathered creation, though it is by no 
‘means gay. ‘The bill, legs, and feet are of a rich 
fearlet ; crown black, and the remainder of.the 
plumage of a light afh-colour, except the quill- 
feathers, which are prettily barred, and tipped 
with black, and the tail much forked. The 
flight, or extent of wing, in this bird, is very 
great, in proportion to the body. ‘they’ are 
found as far North as has hitherto been vifited, 
but retire to the South early in the Fall. 
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Peticans. Thofe birds are numerous in the Pelicans 
interior parts of the country, but never appear 
near the fea-coaft. They generally frequent large 
lakes, and always make their nefls on iflands. 
They are fo provident for their young, that great 
quantities of fifh lie rotting near their nefts, and 
emit fuch a horrid ftench as tobe fmelt at a con- 
fiderable diftance. The flefh of the young Peli- 
can is frequently eaten by the Indians; and as 
they are always very fat, great quantities of it is 
melted down, and preferved in bladders for Win- 
ter ufe*, to mix with pounded flefh; but by 
EF f 2 keeping, 
* In the Fall of 1774, when I firft fettled at Cumberland Houfe, the 
Indians impofed on me and my people very mach, by felling us Pelican 
fit for the fat of the black bear. Our knowledge of the delicacy of the 
latter induced us to referve this fat for paiticular purpofes; but when we 
came to open the bladders, it was little fuperior to train oil, and was ‘on- 
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