PELICAN. 437 



bill and eye bare and dusky; the head, neck, breast, and all the 

 upper parts deep brown, marked with white spots, which are small 

 and more numerous on the head, and larger and fewer on the back 

 and breast ; the belly and rest of the under parts dirty white ; quills 

 and tail brown ; legs black. 



B. — Pelecanus maculatus, Gnu Lin. i. 579. Ind. Om. ii. 892. 

 Fou tachete, Buf. viii. 375. PL enl. 986. 

 Spotted Boobj', Gen. Syn. vi. G14. 



The bill in this bird is pale brown, yellow towards the tip ; 

 the plumage in general dusky brown, spotted with white throughout, 

 the spots smaller on the head, and larger on the back and wings ; 

 breast and belly white, waved and spotted with dusky brown ; the 

 wings remarkably short, much more so than in any other of the 

 known species ; quills and tail plain brown ; legs the same. 



These two birds are said to inhabit America; the former frequents 

 the shores of Florida, and the latter those of Cayenne ; but they 

 appear to us no other than the young of the Gannet, which an- 

 swers to these descriptions; being, for the first year at least, brown 

 or dusky, marked with white spots, and is an elegant bird. One of 

 these, answering most precisely to the figure in the PI. enlum. 986, 

 under the title of Fou tachete de Cayenne, was brought to me 

 in September, 1798, taken alive near Salisbury, but died in a few 

 days ; it weighed three pounds and a quarter, was three feet long, in 

 breadth six; irides bluish grey; the rest according to the description 

 above. 



34 —LESSER GANNET. 



Pelecanus Piscator, Ind. Orn. ii. 892. Lin. i. 217. Amcen. Acad. iv. 239.— female. 



Gm. Lin. i. 578. Borowsk. iii. 43. 

 Sula Candida, Bris. vi. 501. Id. 8vo. ii. 491. 



