OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE. 185 
nus, or Frigate-bird* Pelican of the Zoo- 
logical Museum, and of so many other au- 
thorities. The truth is, that the Southern 
Hemisphere has no Pelican; but if Captain 
Flinders and others have misled Mr. Mont- 
gomery into the belief, that his Pirates and 
Men-of-War Birds are not only Pelicans, but 
Pelicans, too, of the Wilderness,— 
“Ye future dwellers in the Wilderness—” 
he does but err with many others, as well 
poets as travellers, and even ‘naturalists. 
The author of that charming poem, the 
Pleasures of Hope, in Lines upon the Kimi- 
grants to the Swan-river, has very lately an- 
ticipated for New Holland,— 
«What spacious cities, with their spires, shall gleam, 
Where now the Panther laps a lonely stream ;—” 
and yet, most certainly, there is no more a 
Panther to lap the streams of Australia, 
than there is a Pelican, to breed and die 
upon its islands ! 
In an after-part of the day, Mrs. Aston, 
recurring to what had been said about the 
* Tachypetes aquila.—VIEILL. 
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