6ia P E L I C A N. 



27. Pelecanus Sula, Lin. Syft. i. p. 218. 7. 



*"'■ BOORY° N Le F ° U ' Br '- f ' ° r "' Vi ' P ' 495- I — Bu f' °'f- viii> P* 3 68, P 1, 2 9' 



Anferi Baffano congener fufca avis, Rail Syn. p. 191. 6. — Sloan, Jam. p.. 



322. t. 271. fig. 2 *. 



Booby, Brown. Jam. p. 481. — Catefe. Car. i. pi. 87. 



Description. QIZE of the kjfer Gannet : length two feet fix inches. The 

 bill nearly four inches and a half long, toothed on the edges, 

 and of a grey colour ; bafe of it pale brown : fpace round the 

 eyes, and the chin, bare of feathers, and covered with a yellowifh 

 flcin : irides pale grey : the head, neck, upper parts of the 

 body, wings, and tail, cinereous brown : the greater quills much 

 the darken: : the tail brownifh at the end, and in fhape greatly 

 cuneiform : the breaft, belly, thighs, and vent, white : legs pale 

 yellow : claws grey. 



Catejby obferves, that thefe vary; fome have white bellies, and 

 others not ; and that there is no perceivable difference between 

 male and female. 



The young birds have the head and neck white, with a very 

 flight tinge of brown; but may be diftinguifhed from having the 

 feathers of thofe parts downy and foft, and not of the ufual 

 texture. 

 Place* Inhabits the Bahama JJlands ; and we believe likewife very com- 



mon in many other parts of the world. Our fpecimen came from 

 Cayenne. It probably may be the fort mentioned by Dampier as 

 being fo plentiful in the ifland of Aves, eight or nine leagues eaft 

 of Buenos Ayres, which is defcribed as a very fimple creature that 

 will hardly go out of a man's way, Thefe are faid to build their 



nefts 



