414 PELICAN. 



16 — PALMERSTON FRIGATE PELICAN, 



Pelecanus Palraerstoni, Ind. Orn. ii. 886. Gm. Lin. i. 573. 

 Palmerston Frigate Pelican, Gen. Syn. vi. 592. 



LENGTH three feet. Bill black, five inches and a half long-, 

 and hooked at the end; space round the eyes well feathered; the 

 upper part of the head, neck, and body, brown, with a greenish 

 gloss ; wing coverts nearest the body dark glossy green ; fore part of 

 the neck mottled brown and white ; the rest of the under parts white ; 

 vent black ; tail forked ; the shafts of the feathers white ; legs dusky 

 black ; the middle claw serrated on the inside. 



Inhabits the Island of Palmerston, in the South Seas. From 

 the collection of Sir Joseph Banks. We suspect that this and the 

 last form but one species, although probably different from the first 

 described, as the head in both is entirely covered with feathers round 

 the eyes. 



*** BILL SMOOTH—TAIL ROUNDED- 

 CORVORANTS. 



17.— COMMON CORVORANT. 



Pelecanus Carbo, Ind. Orn. ii. 886. Lin.\. 216. Fn. suec. No. 145. Gm. Lin. i. 



573. Scop. i. No. 98. Brim. No. 120. 122. Midler, No. 146. 148. Georgia 



169. Frisck, i. 187, 188. N. C. Petr. iv. 423. Fn. gr'oenl. No. 57. Bor. iii. 



38.- t. 40. Fn. Helv. Sepp, t. 98, 99. Tern. Man. 587. Id. Ed. 2d. 893. 

 Corvus aquaticus, Raii, 122. A. 3. Will. 248. t. 63. Klein, 144. 5. Mars. Dan. 



16. t. 36. Besl. Mus. t. 8. 

 Phalacrocorax, Bris. vi. 511. t. 45. Id. Svo. ii. 495. Gerin. v. t. 501. 

 Der Kormoran, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 756. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. 750. 

 Seerabe, Schr. d. Berl. Nat. viii. s. 430.* 



* In this Essay will be found a full description of the bird, as to the internal as well as 

 external appearance. 



