432 PELICAN. 



with a cast of green about the neck and breast ; wing coverts ob- 

 scure brown, the feathers margined with glossy black ; about the 

 eyes dotted with white, but the spots not very numerous ; on the 

 neck, breast, and sides are also a few scattered spots, which arise 

 from pencils of very tender hairs of that colour, which are inter- 

 mixed, and appear here and there among the feathers ; the tail con- 

 sists of twelve feathers, is stiff, long, and cuneiform, as in the Shag. 

 The female is wholly brown, or dull black, and not spotted. 



Inhabits the Caspian Sea, among others of the Genus ; also 

 seen about Gurjef, on the River Jaick. 



A. — Pelecanus pygmoeus, It. Poseg. p. 25. Ind. Orn. ii. 890. 



In this the head and upper part of the neck and sides of it are 

 chestnut, sparingly scattered with points of a pure white; chin 

 mouse-colour ; lower part of the head, and under part of the body, 

 covered with brown feathers, margined with chestnut; belly hoary, 

 spotted with brown ; wing coverts black, marked on the edges with 

 black, denticulated with brown ; legs black ; edges of the bill 

 smooth. — Inhabits Possega, in Sclavonia. 



'*** WITH A SERRATED BILL, AND A SLIGHTLY WEDGED TAIL. 



GANNETS. 



33. -COMMON GANNET. 



Pelecanus Bassanus, Ind. Om. ii. 891. Lin.i. 217. Fn. suec. No. 147. Gm. Lin.i. 



577. Brun. No. 124. Muller, No. 147. Fn. groenl. No. 59. Bor. iii. p. 42. 



Sepp, v. t. p. 301. 

 Sulaalba, Tern. Man.d'Orn. 593. Id. Ed. 2d. 907. 

 Anser Bassanus, Rail, 122. A. 2. Will. <2A1. t. 63. Sibb. Scot. III. 20. t. 9. f. 2. 



Klein, Av. 143. 2. Gerin. v. t. 515. 



