604 PELICAN. 



Land; and is faid by the voyagers to build in towns. By this 

 is meant when they form themfelves into focieties, and take cer- 

 tain places to themfelves. They make the neft near the edges 

 of the cliffs, on the tops of the tufts of grafs*, which are flat and 

 broad above, occafioned by thefe birds building upon them from 

 year to year. - 



20. Lev. Muf. 



MAGELLANIC 

 SH. 



Description. 



EN GTH thirty inches. Bill three inches long, black : fides 

 of the head, and the chin, bare, and reddifh ; but the middle of 

 the laft is fomewhat downy : the head and neck, as far as the 

 bread, the back, wings, and tail, are of a deep black; the head 

 and neck fomewhat glofiy, and the feathers of the firft feem full, 

 making that part appear larger than it really is ; but the head is 

 by no means crefted : behind each eye is a fpot of white: 

 the under parts, from the breaft, are alfo white ; and the fide 

 feathers under the wings ftriped with white: thighs black: the 

 quills and tail are deep black ; the laft cuneiform, and four inches 

 in length : legs pale brown. 

 Place and Inhabits Terra del Fuego. Is alfo met with at Staaten Land ; 



and is gregarious, like others of this genus. In Chriftmas Sound 

 build by thoufands among the rocks, chufing fuch places where 

 they project over the fea, or at leaft where they rife perpendicu- 

 larly, that in cafe the young fall out, they may take no harm, 

 dropping only into the water. Are faid to make holes in the 



* Dattylis glomerata. Lin. — See For/}. Voj. i."p. 41. — This grows frequently 

 four feet high, and is two or three times as much in breadth at top. The Pen- 

 guini often take fhelter beneath it.— Id, Of>/. p. 41. i 



rock. 



Manners. 



