PELICAN. 433 



Rothgans, Schmid, Vog. p. 158. t. 134. 

 Sula Hoieri, Raii, 123. 5. Will. 249.* 



Bassana, Bris. vi. 505. 5. t. 44. Id. 8vo. ii. 492. 



Fou de Bassan, Buf. viii. 376. PL enl. 278. 



Der Bassanische Pelikan, Bechst. Deuts. Ed. 2d. iv. 765. 



Soland Goose, Will. Engl. 328. pi. 63. Albin, i. pi. 86. Ray's Select. Rem. p. 191. 



Gannet, Gen. Syn. vi. 608. Id. Sup. 280. Id. Sup. ii. 365. Br. Zool. ii. No. 293. 



pi. 103. Id.fol. 160. pi. L. Id. Ed. 1812. ii. 286. pi. 48. Arct. Zool.u. No. 



510. Tour in Scotland, 1769. pi. p. 199. Bewick, ii. pi. in p. 393. Lewin, vii. 



pi. 265. Id. lii. Noj 1.— the egg. Walcot, i. pi. 94. Pult. Dors. p. 22. Orn. 



Diet. Sf Supp. Wood's Zoogr. i. p. 561. 



SIZE of a Goose ; weight seven pounds, length nearly three 

 feet, breadth six. Bill bluish ash-colour, stout at the base, and 

 very little curved at the point, the length six inches ; in the place 

 of the nostrils a long furrow, but with no perceivable perforation ;t 

 inside of the mouth black; tongue minute; a naked blue skin sur- 

 rounds the eyes and base of the bill ; throat bare, and the skin 

 somewhat dilatable, forming a small pouch, but the oesophagus 

 extremely capacious, as well as the skin for some way downward, so 

 as to be capable of containing five or six herrings, or fish of equal 

 bulk ; irides yellowish, furnished with a nictitating membrane, very 

 strong, and almost as transparent as glass ; general colour of the 

 plumage white; but the crown and upper parts of the neck are 

 buff-colour ; the bastard wing and greater quills black ; the tail has 

 twelve feathers, and cuneiform ; the legs black, marked with a stripe 

 of pea-green before, and placed more forwards than in the Corvo- 

 rant ; the claw of the middle toe pectinated, as in the Heron. 



The male and female are much alike. Young birds, during the 

 first year, are dusky, speckled with white. 



The Gannet inhabits the coldest parts of this kingdom, more 

 especially several of the Northern Isles, as that in Scotland, called 



* The Sula Hoieri has some of the secondary feathers black, and the middle tail feathers 

 of the same colour. The Gannet of New South Wales, has both quills and tail black ; 

 and the wings, when closed, are of equal length with the tail. 



f On minute examination, an opening will be found at the end of the furrow, not far 

 from the point of the bill. 



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