PELICAN. $91 



of the neck, and breaft, white : tail greatly forked, as in the other : 

 legs of a dirty yellow. 



In my collection is a bird very fimilar to this, if not the fame : 

 general colour of the plumage a full black : breaft and belly mot- 

 tled with afh-colour: the inner ridge of the wing the fame : the 

 bill has the long furrow, as is feen in the greater one ; but the nof- 

 trils are fufficiently apparent, being about half an inch in length, 

 rather broader at that part which is near the bafe. This has a 

 large red pouch at the chin and throat, as in the former fpecies. 

 It is moft likely that mine is the male bird, as others, fufpe&ed to 

 be of the oppofite fex, have little or no traces of the jugular 

 pouch*/ Some have fuppofed that the greater and leffer Frigates 

 are the fame bird, in different periods of age. 



CIZE of a large Duck : length near three ke.t. Bill five inches 'i;,, 



long ; colour dufky, except at the tip, where it is very pale, HEADED FR. P. 

 nearly white; both mandibles are hooked : the fides of the head Description. 

 covered with feathers : the head, and fore part of the neck, are , 

 white, finishing in a point on the laft : the bread and belly are 

 alfo white : except thefe, the reft of the plumage is brown : the 

 tail forked : legs reddifh brown. 



This is in the Hunterian Mujeum. In the fame collection I ob- 

 ferve one very like it, with the head and half the neck all round 

 white, paffing on the fore part down the breaft, and ending be- 

 tween the legs : fides of the body, and the vent, brown j which, as 



• This fuppofition feems juflified from apair in the Hunterian Miifeum, in both 

 of which the plumage is wholly black ; the one has a large pouch, the other defti- 

 tuteof it. 



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