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latable *, reaching eight or nine inches down the neck ; this is 

 bare of feathers, and in fome capable of containing many quarts 

 of water : the gape is very wide f. 



On the top of the upper mandible runs a rib of crimfon ; the 

 reft of it is of a pale red at the bafe, and grows yellow towards the 

 point; the under one is of a pale red, and the pouch red or yel- 

 lowifh : the tongue very fmall, fcarcely diftinguifhable : the irides 

 hazel : fides of the head bare of feathers, being covered only with 

 a flefh-coloured fkin, in which the eyes are placed : the hind 

 head fomewhat crefted : the plumage wholly white, with a tinge 

 of flefh-colour, except the baftard wing and prime quills, which 

 are black. : legs lead-colour : claws grey. 



The bill in young birds is wholly yellow. 



Place and This fpecies is common in fome of the warmer parts of Europe, 



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on the continent, but chiefly frequents the torrid zone. In the 



Ruffian dominions they are in incredible numbers about the 



Cafpian and Black Seas, and fometimes proceed a good way up 



the rivers which fall into them, coming and going with the Swans, 



Geefe, Storks, and other birds ; are very fcarce towards the Eaft, 



and feldom met with fo far North as the Sibirian lakes, though 



now and then feen on that of Baikal ; often met with on many 



* This is often ufed by the common failors for tohacco-pouches, bringing it into 

 form merely by putting in a large ftone or cannon-ball, and hanging the bag to 

 dry in this ftate. We have, however, feen the pouch drej/ed, and made into a 

 lady's work-bag, and elegantly ornamented ; the appearance of it in this ftate is 

 not unlike a we\l-dreffed parchment or 'vellum ikin, but very pliant. 



f In one fhswn fome years fince in London, the keeper could eafily put in his 

 head ; and mention has been made of another, fliewn in France, whofe gape was 

 £o wide as to admit the legs of a man with boots on. — Salem. Orn. p. 369. 



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