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by filling the pouch with it. It is faid that the Camels and other 

 beads take the advantage of quenching their thirft, by reforting 

 to their nefts, and, as if grateful for the fupply, never do the leaft 

 injury to the young *. This is faid fometimes to be ufed for 

 domeftic fijhing, in the fame manner as the Corvorant by the 

 Cbinefe j\ I do not find the Pelican much commended for food 5 

 though we are told that it affords better meat than the Booby, or 

 Man of War BirdX- 



Le Pelican a bee dentele, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 523. A. — -Buf. Oif. viii. p. 309. i. 



Var. A. 



^FHIS differs from the great white Pelican in nothing, except SAW-BILLED P. 



the having the bill toothed, and of a faffron-colour : the Description. 

 legs are alfo of the fame colour, inclining to red. 



Inhabits Mexico. Place. 



Le Pelican rofe de 1'Ifle de Lucon, Son. Voy. p. qi. t. 54. 2. 



y V ROSE-COLOUR.- 



SIZE of a tame Goo fe. Bill black: round the eyes bare and ED ' 



Description, 

 yellow : pouch the fame : the plumage wholly of a rofe-co- 



lour : legs black. 



Inhabits the ifland of Manilla. Placs, 



* OJbeck Voy. — The Pelican has been remarked for peculiar tendernefs to its 

 young, in feeding them with the blood from the breafi ; but this has arifen from 

 feeing one of thefe empty the red iva/er bag* which it does by preffing it on the 

 breaft, and a perfon ignorant of the matter might eafily be miftaken. 



t Hift. desOif.vm. p. 285. 



% Dampier's Voy. Part II. p. 7 1 .—Forbidden to be eaten by the Jew, as welj 

 as the Cor-vorant, Levitic. xi. 17,18. 



4 E 2 Pelecanus 



