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of the coafts of the Mediterranean, and the iflands therein * ; arc 

 common in Greece, and faid to build in fome of the rivers which 

 flow into the Danube f, ftraying iometimes into Switzerland, one 

 having been fhot at Zurich, but fo rare there as not to be known 

 by the common people ; are now and then ieen in France, one of 

 them having been killed in the province of Dauphiny, and another 

 on the river Saone, in that of Lot rain J. I find an account like- 

 wife of one being fhot in England, at Horfey Fen, in May, 1663, 

 which meafured three yards from tip to tip of the wing || ; and 

 Dr. Leith afiuresme, that a few years fince, in the month of May, 

 he faw a Pelican fly over his head, near the feat of Sir Gregory 

 Page, on Blackheath, in Kent; but this was of a brownifh colour, 

 moft likely our brown /pedes. In Africa thefe are pretty fre- 

 quent throughout j coming there in September, and flying in 

 flocks, forming a wedge fhape with the point foremoft, like wild 

 Geefe. In Damietta, and other parts of Egypt, not uncommon, as 

 well as on the coaft of Senegal and parts adjacent, that of Guinea, 

 and the Gold Coaft, and from thence to the Cape of Good Hope : in 

 the bays and rivers of the laft, very frequent §, and in many other 

 parts both oiAfia and Africa mentioned by various authors. The 

 female makes a neft of reedy grafs, in the moffy, turfy places, 

 chiefly in the iflands of the lakes, remote from man ; it is a foot 

 and a half in diameter, deeply hollowed, and filled within with 



* In the ifland of Majorca. + Hiji. des Oif. t Id. 



|j See MS. in Br. Muf. N° 1830, 16 E. in a memoir by T. Brown, of Nor- 

 •uiicb.—K quere is here put, whether it might not be one of the King's Pelicans, 

 kept at St. James's, which had been loft about the fame time. 



§ In Sea-Cotv river, in December, Phil. Tranf. vol. Ixvi. p. 291 ; and by hun- 

 dreds in Verloore valley, Id. p. 309. 



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