PELICAN. 397 



yet comprising the whole under one Genus, as has already been done. 

 It is true, that the Pelicans, so called, differ from the rest of the 

 species in the length and shape of the bill. The Frigates, too, as 

 well as the Corvorants and Shags, vary much in the bills, and the 

 same may also be said in respect to the Gannets and Boobies ; but 

 these differences alone have less weight, since a precisely similar 

 structure of the feet reigns through the whole, added to a certain 

 degree of nakedness, and dilatability of the skin of the throat, which 

 in many species forms a large pouch, or reservoir ; and in most of 

 them, likewise, the eye is equally surrounded with a naked skin. 

 Having the above in view, we have thought right to continue in our 

 former opinion, by retaining the whole under one Genus. 



* WITH A SMOOTH BILL— POUCH VERY LARGE— TRUE PELICANS. 



1— WHITE PELICAN. 



Pelecanus Onoerotalus, Ind. Orn. ii. 882. Lin. i. 215. Gm. Lin. i. 569. N. C.Petr. 



xv. 471.16. Scop. i. No. 97. Hasselq. It. 288. Georgi, 169. Kramer, 345. 



Bris. vi. 519. Id. 8vo. ii. 497. Bor. iii. p. 40. Fn. Helv. Dod. Mem. iii. 189. 



t. 26. Rail, 121. Will. 247. t. 63. Phil. Trans. 66. p. 29. Id. 57. p. 348 ? 



Gerin. v. t. 499. Tern. Man. 585. Id. Ed. 2d. p. 891. Robert, Ic. pi. 11. 

 II grotto ossia Pellicano, Cet. Uc. Sard. t. p. 329. f. 2. 

 Baba, BelVs Trav. p. 41. 

 Tubano, Wheeler's Trav. t. p. 304. 

 Tacab, Mise, Chard, iii. p. 40 ? 

 Der grosse Pelecan, Schmid, Vog. p. 155. t. 133. 

 Die Kropfgans, Bechst. Dents, ii. 750. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. 738. Naturf. xii. 140. Frisch, 



t. 186. 

 Pelican, Buf. viii. 282. pi. 25. PI. enl. 87. Hist. Prov. i. 342. 

 White Pelican, Gen. Syn. vi. 575. Id. Syn. Sup. ii. 362. Edw. pi. 92. Will. Engl. 



327. pi. 63. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 505. Penn. Hindoost. ii. 160. Gen. of Birds, 



65. pi. 15. Wood's Zoogr. i. p. 553. 



THIS bird is greatly superior in size to a Swan, sometimes 

 having an extent of wing of fifteen feet ; and weighing twenty-five 



