PELICAN. 



Gullet naked, and capable of great diftenfion. 

 Toes four in number, and all webbed together. 



In the genus Pelican are included all birds known hitherto by 

 the diftindlive names of Pelican, Man of War Bird, Corvorant, 

 Shag, Gannet, and Booby * ; but as the Whole of them have fome 

 fimilar characters, which are marked fo ftrongly as not to be fepa- 

 rated, we have thought right to follow the example of Linnxus, 

 by uniting them j the propriety of which will be feen by attending 

 to the fpecific defcriptions. 



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Pelecanus onocrotalus (Orientals) Lin. Syjl, i. p. 215. 1. a. — HaJJelq. Voy. 



p. 288. — Nov. Com. Petr. xv. p. 471. N° 16. — Scop. Ann. i. N° 97. 



— Georgi Rei/e, p. 169. — Kram. El. p. 34;. 

 Le Pelican, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 519. 1. — Buf. Oif. viii. p. 282. pi. 25. — PI. 



Enl. 87. 

 Baba, Bell. Tram. p. 4!. 



Pelecane, Rati Syn. p. 121. 1. — Will. Orn. p. 3Z7. pi. 63. 

 Tubano, Wheeler's Travels, p. 304. pi. in ditto. 

 The Pelican, Ed<w. pi. 92. 



Great Pelecan, Aril. Zool. N° 505. — Gen. of Birds, p. 67. pi. 15. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



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'T'HIS bird, when of full age, is greatly fuperior in fize to a 

 Swan; it fometimes extends, from the tip of one wing to 

 that of the other, as far as fifteen feet, and will weigh twenty-five 

 pounds. The bill is fifteen or fixteen inches long; the upper 

 mandible flat and broad, furnifhed with a hook at the end ; the 

 fkin between the fides of the upper mandible very flaccid and di- 



GREAT WHITE 

 P. 



Description^ 



• See Briffon Orn. Vol. VI. Genera CX. CXI. CXII. 

 t latable, 



