Class II. G A N N E T. 613 



From the corner of the mouth is a narrow flip of 

 black bare fkin, that extends to the hind part of 

 the head : beneath the chin is another, that like 

 the pouch of the Pelecan, is dilatable, and of fize 

 fufficient to contain five or fix entire herrings; 

 which, in the breeding feafon, it carries at once to 

 its mate or young. 



The neck is very long : the body flat, and very 

 full of feathers : the crown of the head, and a fmall 

 fpace on the hind part of the neck is buff co- 

 lored : the reft of the plumage is white : the baftard 

 wing and greater qnil-feather excepted, which are 

 black; the legs and toes are black; but the fore 

 part of both are marked with a ftripe of fine pea 

 green. The tail confifts of twelve fharp pointed 

 feathers, the middle of which is the longed. 



The young birds, during the firft year, differ You no. 

 greatly in color from the old ones ; being of a 

 duiky hue, fpeckled with numerous triangular 

 white fpots ; and at that time refemble in colors 

 the fpeckled Diver. Each bird, if left undifturb- Egg, 

 ed, would only lay one egg in the year ; but if 

 that be taken away, they will lay another ; if that 

 is alfo taken, then a third; but never more that 

 feafon. A wife provifion of nature, to prevent the 

 extinction of the fpecies by accidents, and to fup- 

 ply food for the inhabitants of the places where 

 they breed ; their egg is white, and rather lefs than 

 that of the common goofe: the neft is large, and Nest. 

 formed of any thing the bird finds floating on the 



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