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a kind of pouch or bag. As to its color, its back is of a deep 

 dusky brown, with a mixture of a greenish gloss ; the feathers of 

 its belly are white ; its tail is in length about a hand-breadth and 

 1 half; its legs are black, thick, and fiattish, and its toes are joined 

 together by a membrane, in the manner of a duck ; it builds its 

 nests on trees or in rocks; it. lives on fish, and with great violence 





The Cormorant, 



darts on them in the water ; its appetite is most voracious, while 

 there is probably no carnivorous bird so disagreeable in its smell, 

 or so hateful and disgusting in its habits as this. Is not this 

 unclean and hateful bird a just figure of the vile sensualist, who 

 is bent on the gratification of his carnal appetites and lusts ? 



The Common Pelican is called onocrotalus, and is all over 

 of a greyish white. The bill is of great length and hooked at the 

 end, and has under it a loose flexible membrane reaching to the 

 throat, which forms a bag capable of holding a large quantity of 

 food for feeding its young. Like the duck, or goose, its feet are 

 weltbed, all the toes being joined by the membrane, thus fitting it 

 for gwimming. The bones of this bird are solid, and not hollow 



