PELICAN. 



elongated, forming a creft of four inches and a half in length : 

 the legs are black. 



This fpecies (for we efteem it as diftinct) is found in fome parts 

 of America. We have only feen three fpecimens, two of which 

 were brought from Hudfon's Bay, and the third from New Tork •, 

 but Mr. Pennant mentions its having been alfo fent from 

 South Carolina. The moft perfect fpecimen is in the Leverian 

 Mufeum : that in mine has the elevated part of the bill injured 

 in many places, but fufficient to fhew the original ftate. A third, 

 in the Britijh Mufeum, has the ridged part reduced to a mere 

 fibrous tuft, the reft having been beaten off: hence we may con- 

 clude, that nature has intended this additional ridge for defence ; 

 and, as it is compofed of full as hard a texture as the reft of the 

 bill, nothing but repeated and violent blows could have been able 

 to produce the breaches made in my fpecimen, and efpecially the 

 total deftruction of fhape feen in that of the Britiflo Mufeum. 



587 



Place. 



Pelecanus aquilus, Lin. SyJ}. i. p. 216. 2. 



La Fregate, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 506. 6. pi. 43. fig. 2. A. — Buf. Oif. viii. FRIGATE P 



p. 381. — Pernet. Voy. i. p. iz;. — Hiji. Louif. ii. p. 118. 

 La grande Fregate de Cayenne, PI. Enl. 96 1„ 

 Fregata Avis, Raii Syn. p. 153. 

 Rabihorcado, Raii Syn. p. 192. 15. — Will. Orn. p. 395. pi. 77. — Ulloas 



Voy. ii. p. 304. 

 Man of War Bird, Brown Jam. p. 483. — Damp. Voy. i. p. 49. pi. in vol. iii. 



part 2. p. 99. 

 Frigate Bird, Albin, iii. pi. 80. — Gen. Birds, p. 67. pi. 16. 



Lev. Muf. 



CIZE, in the body, of alarge Fowl: length three feet : breadth Description, 

 , fourteen. The bill is (lender, five inches long, and much curved 



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