6o$ PELICAN. 



Place. This fpecies is met with about the Cafpian Sea, among others 



of the genus j alfo on the river Jaick, about Gurjef*. 



2J. Pelecanus baflanus, Lin. Syjl. i, p. 217. 5. — Faun. Suec. N° 147.— <Brun. 



4- GANNET. N o I24 ._Mk//W-, N° 147.—/W GrW. N° 59. 



Le Fou de Baflan, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 503. pi. 44. — Buf. Oif. viii. p. 376.— 



PL Enl. 278. 

 Sula Hoieri, RaiiSyn. p. 123. 5 f 

 Soland Goofe, RaiiSyn. p. 122. A. 2.— Will. Orn. p. 328. pi. 63.— Albiti, 



i. pi. 86. 

 Gannet, Br. Zoo!, ii. N° Z93. — Ar3. Zool. N°5io. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. CIZE of a Goofe : weight feven pounds : length near three feet : 

 breadth fix. Bill blueilb afh-colour; the length of it fix 

 inches j noftrils placed in a furrow : infide of the mouth black : a 

 naked blue fkin furrounds the eyes, and the bafe of the bill : the 

 throat is bare, and the fkin very dilatable, forming a pouch ca- 

 pable of containing five or fix Herrings: irides yellow ifh : the 

 general colour of the plumage is white ; but the crown, and upper 

 parts of the neck, at the back part, are buff-colour : the baftard 

 wing, and greater quills, black : the tail confifts of twelve fea- 

 thers, and is cuneiform : the legs black, marked with a (tripe of 

 pea-green before : the claw of the middle toe pectinated, like 

 that of the Heron. 



The male and female are much alike. 



Thzyoung birds, during the firfb year, are dufky, fpeckled with 

 white; one of which we fufpect the next-defcribed to be. 



Pi,ace and The Gannet inhabits the colder parts of this kingdom, and 



Manners. 



* Dec. Rujf. iii. p. 504. 



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