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our forts on the Gold Coaft, where it had been kept tame for a 

 long time, "and was reckoned a fcarce bird, by reafon of being 

 crefted. Like others of its race, it was very voracious : an expe- 

 riment was tried how many fijh it could take into the bill, and 

 numbers of different fizes were laid before the bird on the ground : 

 it firft attempted to take up one of ten pounds, but the bill 

 would by no means raife it from the ground j it then picked up 

 as far as ten of the others, each weighing a pound, and flowed 

 them carefully in the bag, arranging them along-fide each other, 

 with the heads towards the throat ; and after this trudged off 

 very ftately, with the bag hanging down to his feet. The pouch 

 held about two gallons of water. 



Charles-Town Pelican, Ar8. Zooh N° 507. 7- 



CHARLES- 

 TOWN P. 



Description. 



IZE of a Canada Goofe. Colour of the plumage dufky above ; 

 white on the breaft and belly j with a pouch capable of hold- 

 ing numbers of gallons of liquids*. 



Thefe abound in the bay of Charles-Town, in America, where Place. 



they are continually fifhing. 



HpWO fpecimens of birds fimilar to the above, if not the fame, 7. 



are in the Hiinterian Mufeum. The fize correfponds : the 

 length four feet. Bill thirteen inches long, and differs from 

 many in having that part of the upper mandible which is next 

 the bafe almoft cylindrical, and not flat, though fpreading out 

 confiderably near the end : the plumage brown above : head, 



* Ara. Zooh 



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