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VEUTEI5RATA. 





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TUB COMMON' WHITE PELICAN. 



and modified according; to their different kinds, formed such a horrid music that I was every mo- 

 ment obliged to cover my head to give a little relief to my ears. The alarm which we spread 

 was so much the more general among these innumerable legions of birds, as we principally dis- 

 turbed the females which were then sitting. They had nests, eggs, and young to defend. They 

 were like furious harpies let loose a2;ainst us, and their cries rendered us almost deaf. They often 

 flew so near us that they flapped their wings in our f;ices, and though we fired our pieces repeat- 

 edly we were not able to frighten them ; it seemed almost impossible to disperse this cloud. We 

 could not move one step without crushing either their eggs or their young ones; the earth was 

 entirely strewed with them." The same traveler found on the Klein-Brak Eiver, wdiilc waiting 



