CRESTED CURASSOW, OR Hocco. 179 
Museum at Bruton-street, and been equally 
surprized and pleased with the variety of 
structure and form of the feathers in its tail, 
the two lyre-like feathers particularly in- 
clusive. 
Reverting to what had passed concerning 
the Albatross and Pelican, and to the lines 
which had been quoted from the poem of 
Mr. James Montgomery, our party commu- 
nicated to each other some doubts, whether 
the Pelicans of the poet’s Island are really 
Pelicans, and not Albatrosses. There seems 
great reason to believe that these birds, 
which nearly resemble each other im size, are 
much mistaken for each other; and the cir- 
cumstance which fixed the attention of Mr. 
Montgomery, and has become the founda- 
tion of his poem; that of the long genera- 
tions of the birds, whatever were their names, 
which lived and died in peace upon Captain 
Flinders’s Kangaroo Island, in a guif upon 
the coast of New Holland, is possibly more 
characteristic of the fate of the tyrant Al- 
batross, than of the real Pelican. At any 
rate, the report from Kangaroo Island is in- 
teresting, as affording one example at least, 
