6io PELICAN. 



of their food, and are faid to confume annually no lefs than 

 twenty-two thoufand fix hundred young birds, befides an amazing 

 quantity of eggs : they preferve both eggs znd fowls in fmall pyra- 

 midal ftone buildings, covering them with turf-ajhss to preferve 

 them from moifture. To procure thefe birds, the natives run 

 great hazard, in being lowered down from the top of the cliffs by- 

 ropeSj and not unfrequently perifh in the attempt *. 



25. Le grand Fou, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 497. 2. — Buf. Oif. viii. p. 372. 



^ AR " A ' Great Booby, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 86. (the head). 



Description. ^TPHIS is about the fize of a Goofe, but the tail is longer,, 

 The bill a little more than five inches long, and of a grey 

 brown : irides hazel : fpace between the bill and eye bare of fea- 

 thers, being covered only with a dufky fkin r the head, neck, and 

 breafir, and all the upper parts, deep brown, marked with white 

 fpots j which are fmall and more numerous on the head, and 

 larger and fewer in number on the back and breaft : the belly, 

 and reft of the under parts, dirty white : quills and tail brown : 

 legs black. 

 Place. Inhabits the fhores of Florida, where it is frequent. It appears 



to be no other than the young of the Gannet. 



* For the above, as well as the general account of the manners, fee Br. Zooh 

 — for the method itfelf, fee Ar8* Zool. Jutted, p. xxix, pi. IV* 



Pelecanus 



