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Pel. carbo, L.; Enl. 927; the young, Frisch, 187 and 188; and 
Brit. Zool., pl. t iy (The Cormorant). Black- brown, undu- 
lated with jet black on the back, and mixed with white near the end 
of the bill and front of the neck; circumference of the throat and the 
cheeks white in the male, na also has a tuft on the occiput. Its 
size is that of the goose. It breeds in holes among the rocks or upon 
trees, and lays three or four eggs. 
Pel. graculus, Gm.; Enl. 974, the young. (The Little Cormo- 
rant). Is somewhat smaller, of a deeper black and more bronzed; 
no white on the front of the neck; the feathers on the back more 
pointed; not so common as the preceding species*. 
Tacuypertes, Vieill, 
The Frigate Birds differ from the Cormorants in their forked tail and 
short feet, the membranes of which are deeply emarginated; in an exces- 
sive length of wing, and in a bill both of whose mandibles are curved at 
the point. So powerful are their wings, that they fly to an immense dis- 
tance from all land, principally between the tropics, darting upon the Fly- 
ing Fish and striking the Boobies to make them disgorge their prey. 
One species only is well known, the Pelecanus aquilus, L.; Enl. 
961; Vieill. Gal., pl. 274, whose plumage is black, the under part 
of the throat and neck more or less varied with white, and the bill 
red. Its wings, when expanded, are said to measure from ten to 
twelve feet}. 
Sura, Briss—Dysporus, Illig. 
The Boobies} have a straight, slightly compressed, pointed bill, the 
point slightly arcuated; its edges are serrated, the teeth inclining back- 
wards; the nostrils are prolonged by a line which extends to near the 
point. The throat is naked as well as the circumference of the eye, the 
former not being susceptible of much dilatation; the nail of the middle 
toe is serrated, the wings much smaller than those of the Frigates, and 
the tail somewhat wedge-shaped. ‘They are called Boobies on account of 
the excessive stupidity with which they permit themselves to be attacked 
by men and birds, the Frigate Birds particularly, which, as already stated, 
force them to yield up the fish which they have captured. The most 
common is, 
Pelecanus bassanus, L.; Enl.. 278; Vieill.; Brit. Zool. pl. L; 
Naum. Sup. 56, f, 106. Le Fou de Bassan. (The Common Booby). 
White; the primary quills of the wings and the feet black; the bill 
greenish; nearly as large as the goose. It is called the Bassan 
* Add the Cormoran longup., Tem. (Pel. cristatus, Olafs.), Voy. en Isl., tr. fr. pl. 
xliv, Col. 322, and Vieill. Gal. 276;—Pel. africanus, Lath.;—Sparm. Mus. Carls. 1, 
10;—Pelec. pygmaeus, Pall. Voy. App., pl. 1. 
+ Naturalists have, somewhat gratuitously, raised to the rank of species the Pelec. 
minor, Edw. 309, and ‘leucocephalus, Buff. Ois. VIII, pl. xxx, and perhaps even the 
P. Palmerstoni, Lath. 
t{ Sula is the name of the common species at the Fero Islands, Hoyer, Clusius, 
Exot. 86. Booby, their English name, from their stupidity, ut sup. 
