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that bear a great refemblance to it in their general form 

 and their manner of preying. Mr. CateJIy has given 

 the figure of the head of one, which he calls the 

 Greater Booby •, his defcription fuits that of the young 

 Gannet-, 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 favored 

 with, we find it is common to both countries, and 

 during fummer frequents North America. Like ihzPen- 

 guin, it informs navigators of the approach of foundings, 

 who on fight of it drop the plummet. Linnaeus claffes 

 our bird with the Pelecan ; in the tenth edition of his 

 fyftem, he confounds it with the bird defcribed by Sir 

 Hans Sloane, hift. Jam. vol. i. p. 31. preface, whofe co- 

 lors 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 Englifi 

 ear than that of Pelecan. 



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