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DUSKY AND CHARLES-TOWN PELECAN. 



506. Dusky. Pelecanus Onocrotalus occideiitalis, Lin. Syft. 215. — Edw. 93. 



Le Pelican Brun, De Buffon, viii. 306. — PL Enl. g^j.— Latham, m.\ 

 — Lev. Mus.— Bl. Mus.. 



T> With a red bill and black hook : the pouch extending half 

 way down the neck : between the bill and eyes naked and 

 red: head mottled with afli-color and 'white :. the nape flightly 

 crefted : hind part of the neck covered with foft cinereous feathers : 

 back, fcapulars, primaries, and coverts, dufky, edged with dirty- 

 white : tail deep afh :. legs dufky green. In Sizz fcarcely equal to a 

 Swan. 

 Place. Inhabits, during fummer, HuJfon's Bay. One was. fent to MrSa, 



Blackburn, fhot near New Tork, I think in the winter. Extends. 

 to Louijiana * j to Jamaica, the bay of Campechy f , and as low 

 as Carthagena. They fu on rocks in the fea in a fluggifh manner^,, 

 with their bills refting on. their breafts^ 



507. Charles- T) Duflcy above : white on the breaft and belly, with a pouch, be- 

 ginning at the chin, and reaching to the breaft-bone, capable 

 of containing numbers of gallons of liquids. Size of a Canada: 

 Goofe. 

 Pi ACE. Abound in the bay of Charles-town, where they are continually 



fifliing. — Doftor Garden J. 



* Du Pratz, ii. 79, f Bampier's Vay. Campecby, 70.' 



% The fame Gentleman informed me, that the Snowy Owl, N? is frequent 

 near the fliores of South Carolina, among the Palmetto treei. 



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