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the kind which tht Chinefe train for fifhing. They keep numbers, ■whick 

 fit on the edge of their boats ; and, on a fignal given, plunge under 

 water^ and bring up their prey, which they are unable to fwallow, 

 by reafon of a ring placed by their matters round their necks *. 



Mrs. Blackburn received this fpecies ?'iom_New York. There are 

 great flocks in Carolina, efpecially in March and April, when the 

 herrings run up the creeks; at which time they fit fidiing on the logs 

 ■of wood which have fallen Into the water t.» 



SjIO. Gaknet. •^'■- ^o"^- "• N° 293.1 — Pekcanus .Baffanas. Naiitis, 'Jaen Von Gent. Fa««, 



£'«<■£•. N° 14.7. — Latham, \\\. -r— Lev. Mus.^-Bl. Mus. 



P With a ftrait dirty white bill, jagged at the edges : beneath 

 the chin a naked black fkin, dilatable fo as to contain five or 

 fix herrings : hind part of the head bufF-colored : baftard wings 

 and primaries duil<y : a^l the reft of the plumage pure white: toes 

 black, marked before with a pea-green ftripe : feathers of the tail 

 Iharp-pointed. Weight feven pounds.. I^ength three feet one 

 inch. Extent fix feet two. 

 ■yi-ACE. Inhabits the coafl: oi Newfoundland ; where it breeds, and migrates 



fouthward as far as South Carolina. The head of the bird which 

 Catejby has engraven, and called the Greater Booby, i. tab. Ixxxvi., 

 is of one in its young ftate. At that period it is deep afli- colored, 

 fpotted with white. In Europe it is common on the coaft of Nor- 

 way and IcelaKd J; but as it never voluntarily flies overland, is 

 not feen in the Baltic. Wanders for food as far as the coaft of 

 Lijhon, and Gihraltar, where it has been feen in December, plunging 

 ■ for Sardime. Straggles as high as Greenland \. In northern Jfia, it 

 has been once feen by Steller ofi^ Bering's ifie; but has been frequent- 

 ly met with in the fouthern hemifphere, in the Pacifie ocean j 



'* Du Ha/ite, i. 316. f Laivfoti, 150. % Olaf, heland. tl Faim. 



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