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CHAPTER IX. 



PINNIPEDES; SWIMMING FEET. PELICAN FABLE OF DRAWING 



ITS BLOOD EXPLAINED MODE OF FISHING. SEA-BIRDS 



FEEDING ON FISH THROWN UP BY WHALES. CORMORANTS- 

 VORACITY OF MAY BE TAMED FIERCENESS OF. FRIGATE 



BIRD. SOLAN GOOSE LIGHTNESS AND BUOYANCY OF NESTS.. 

 AUHINGAS, OR DARTERS. 



TABLE XXVIII. (See vol. i., p. 23.) 



Order 6. PALMIPEDES. Tribe 2. PINNIPEDES 

 (Swimming -feet). 



THE birds of this Table are, like the preceding, web- 

 footed, but they differ from them in having the 

 back-toe so united with the others as to form 

 one continuous web, having, in some instances, a 

 toothed claw on the second toe ; and what is very 



Toothed Claw of Cormorant's Foot. 



singular, notwithstanding this peculiarity, which, it 

 might be supposed, while it rendered them more fit 

 for swimming, would entirely prevent their clinging 



