6io G A N N E T. Class II. 



Booby ; his defcription fuits that of the young Gan- 

 nett but the angle on the lower mandible made 

 us formerly fufpect that it was not the fame bird ; 

 but from fome late informations we have been fa- 

 vored with, we find it is common to both conn- 

 tries, and during fum.mer frequents North America. 

 Like the Penguin, it informs navigators of the ap- 

 proach of foundings, who on fight of it drop the 

 plummet. Linnaus claffes our bird with the Pele- 

 can -, in the tenth edition of his fyftem, he con- 

 founds it with the bird defcribed by Sir Hans 

 Sloans ', hi ft. Jam. vol. I. p. 31. preface, whofe 

 colors differ from the Gannet in each flage of life : 

 but in his laft edition he very properly feparates 

 them. We continue it in the fame clafs, under the 

 generical name of Corvorants* as more familiar to 

 the Englifb ear than that of Pelecan. . 



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