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ORD. III. GEN. XII. PELICAN. 



Bill, ftraight, the point hooked. 



Nostrils, fituate in a longitudinal furrow, near the middle of the bill. 



Face, moftly naked. 



Gullet, naked, capable of great diftcution. 



Toes, four, webbed together. 



SPECIES T. CORVORANT. 



PI. 265. 



Pelecanus Carbo. Lin. Syfl. I. p. 216. 

 Le Cormoran. Brif. Orn. VI. p. 511. 



The male corvorant weighs near eight pounds. The bill is a pale yellow brown, 

 near four inches long, the upper mandible hooked at the end : the fkin from the bafe of 

 the bill to the eye bare of feathers : the head, neck, and breaft, of a gloffy purple black : 

 at the back of the head is a bufhy kind of creft of the fame colour : a white patch on the 

 throat nearly under the eye : the back, and wings, brown gloffed with purple : quill 

 feathers, dull black: tail, round, and of a dark lead-colour: belly, and vent, black: on 

 the thigh a patch of white : legs, ihort, and black : the toes are webbed together, and 

 (land forward. 



The female has neither the creft, nor the fpot of white on the thigh, and is of a footy 

 black-coloured plumage. 



The corvorant breeds on the high cliffs in the northern parts of thefe kingdoms, and 

 lays fix or eight eggs. It is a great devourer of fifh, and fometimes vifits freih waters. 

 In the autumn it quits its breeding haunts, and goes fouthwards to winter. The latter 

 end of July, 1793, a young one fettled on the vane of the church on Ludgate Hill, and 

 was fhot in the prefence of a number of people : moft probably it was on its paffage to 

 the mouth of the Thames for a winter refidence, and being tired, refted itfelf there. It 

 is common for this bird to perch, and fometimes to build its neft on high trees, however 

 awkward the feet may appear for that purpofe. In the north of Europe its rlelli is eaten, 

 both frefh and falted, and the young, when fkinned, are faid to be as delicate as a turkey. 

 The eggs, too, are eaten by fome, though they will not become hard by boiling ; and 

 probably they are very good, for the Greenlanders, who prize train-oil as the greateft 

 luxury, refufe them, becaufe they fay they {link. The (kin, dreffed as leather, b very 

 ftrong. For the egg fee PI, LVII, 



