PELICAN. sn 



Inhabits the ifland of Palmerfion, in the South Seas. In the col- Pi-aci. 



ledlion of Sir Jofeph Banks. 



Pelecanus Carbo, Lin.SyftA. p. 216. $.-*-Faun. Suec. N° 145.— Scop. Ann. 13. 



i. N°98 Brun. N° 120, iz2.—Muller, N° 146, 148.— Georgi Rei/e, p. ^CORVORANT. 



169. — Frifch. t. 187. — Nov. Com. Petr. iv. p. 423.— Faun. Groenl. 



N° 57- 

 Le Cormoran, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 511. 1. pi. 45.— Buf. Oif. viii. p. 310. 



pi. 26. — Pl.Enl. 927. 

 Cormorant, Rati Syn. p. 122. A. i.—Will. Orn. p. 329. pi. 63. — Altin, 

 ii. pi. 81— Br. Zool. ii. N° zgi.—Ara. Zool. N° 509. 



Lw. Muf. 



CIZE of a Goofe, but more flender : length as far as three feet, or Description. 



even more : breadth four feet two inches : weight leven 

 pounds. The bill is dufky, three inches and a half long; the 

 upper mandible hooked at the end, and a furrow runs longitudi- 

 nally from the bafe great part of its length, but no appearance of 

 noftrils ; the under mandible is covered with a kind of yellowilh 

 green cere, extending under the chin and throat, and forming 

 there a kind of pouch, and from thence extends backwards, and 

 pafles round the eyes : the irides are green : the top of the head, 

 and part of the neck, are black, variegated with perpendicular 

 lines of white ; at the back part the feathers are longer than the 

 reft, forming a fhort creft: the throat white, palling upwards be- 

 hind the eyes : the lower part of the neck, the breaft, and all the 

 under parts, greenifh black; over the thighs a large patch of 

 white : the back, fcapulars, and wing coverts, are of a brownifh 

 colour, reflecting in different lights purple and green ; each fea- 

 ther margined with black ; the fecond quills nearly the fame as 

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