PELICAN. 6ij 



nefts on the ground in fuch places where no trees grow, but make 

 them on the laft whenever they can be found. The flejb is black, 

 and fifhy, yet is often eaten by the privateers. Is alfo met with 

 in New Guinea *. This has been feen at Kamtfchatka \ ; is found 

 in the Ferroe lfles ; and has alfo been met with on our own coafls 

 a few years fince J. 



Pelecanus fiber, Lin. Syjl, i. p. 218. 8. 28. 



Le Fou brun, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 499. 3. pi. 43. fig. r. BROWN B. 



Le petit Fou brun, Buf. Oi/.viu. p. 374. 

 Fou brun de Cayenne, PI. Enl. 974. 



Anferi Bafiano affinis, avis cinereo alba, a Booby, Rail Sy». p. 19I15.— - 

 Sloan. Jam. i. Prsf. p. 31. pi. 6. fig. 1. 



IZE bigger than & Mallard : length two feet or more. Bill Description. 



s 



three inches and three quarters, of a reddifb. colour, bent at 

 the point, and fomewhat ferrated on the edges : fpace about the 

 eyes naked, and red : the general colour of the plumage is pale 

 cinereous brown, darker on the back and fcapulars, and paler on 

 the under parts of the body : the rump, and upper and under tail 

 coverts, pale grey : greater quills dufky afh-colour : the tail con- 

 fifts of fourteen feathers, and cuneiform in fhape ; the two mid- 

 dle feathers afh-colour ; the others the fame, inclining to brown, 

 with the tips grey : legs red. 



Inhabits Cayenne,- and other parts of America, as well as feveral Place- 



of the Wefi India IJlands; found alfo in Africa, 



• See Voy. Vol. iii. Part ii. pi. in p. 165, f Ellis Nan ii. p. 189, 



% Aril, Z00L — Br, ZoaL ii. 619* 



