S90 PELICAN. 



tropics, yet are lefs frequent in fome places than others. Were 

 feen by Cook in jof cleg. In the old route of navigators men- 

 tioned frequently, as being met with at dfcenfion Iftand, Ceylon, 

 Raft Indies, and China *. Dampier faw them in greateft plenty 

 in the IJland of Aves in the Weft Indies. Our later navigators talk 

 of them as frequenting various places of the South Sea, about the 

 Marquesas, Softer Ifles, and New Caledonia f, alfo at Otaheite, 

 though at this laft place not in fuch plenty as in many others. 

 Are faid to make the neft on trees, if any within a proper 

 diftance, otherwife on the rocks J. Lay one or two eggs, of a 

 flefh-colour, marked with crimfon fpots. The young birds are 

 covered with greyifh white down : legs of the fame colour : and 

 the bill white. 



xo. La petite Fregate, Brif. Oris. vi. p. 509. 7. — Buf. Oif. viii. pi. 30. 



+- LESSER FRI- Man of War Bird, Edw. pi. 300. 



GATE P. ; '- "' J " *» 



Description. 4~'T , HlS is lefs than the laft, and meafures only two feet nine. 



inches in length : extent from wing to wing five feet and a 



half. The bill five inches long, and red ; the bafe of it, and bare 



fpace round the eye, of the fame colour; the noftrils are fuffi- 



ciently apparent, and appear near the bafe ; fhape of the bill as in 



the larger one : the head, hind part of the neck, and upper parts of 



the body and wings, are ferruginous brown : the throat, fore part 



• Thought by OJbeck to be one of the forts of birds ufed in iifhing by the 

 Cbinefe. 



f Forft. Voy. i. p. 588. — Id. ii. p. 433. 



t Dampier. — Known to build in quantities on a fmall ifland contiguous to 

 Guadakupe.—Hifi. dts Oif. note (/). 



-i of 



