PELICAN. 441 



37— BROWN BOOBY. 



Pelecanus Fiber, Ind. Orn. ii. 893. Lin. i. 218. Gm. Lin. i. 579. 



Sula fusca, Bris. vi. 499. t. 4-3. f. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 491. 



Anseri Bassano congener cinereo-albus, Sloan. Jam. i. praef. p. 31. pi. 6. f. 1. Rati, 



191. 5. 

 Brown Booby, Gen. Syn. vi. 613. 



SIZE bigger than a Mallard ; length two feet or more. Bill 

 three inches and three quarters, reddish, bent at the point, and 

 somewhat serrated on the edges ; space about the eyes naked, and 

 red ; general colour of the plumage pale cinereous brown, darker 

 on the back and scapulars, and paler on the under parts of the body; 

 the rump, upper, and under tail coverts, pale grey; greater quills 

 dusky ash-colour; tail of fourteen feathers, and cuneiform; the two 

 middle ash-colour; others the same, inclining to brown, with the 

 tips grey ; legs red. 



Inhabits Cayenne, and other parts of America, as well as several 

 of the West India Islands ; found also in Africa. 



38— BROWN AND WHITE BOOBY. 



SIZE of the Common Booby. Bill brown ; head, neck, begin- 

 ning of the back, the rump, breast, and all beneath, pure white ; 

 top of the head and nape pale brown ; middle of back, the wings 

 in general, and two middle tail feathers, dusky brown, nearly black; 

 some of the second quills margined with white ; tail long, cuneiform, 

 the outer feathers white ; legs pale yellow brown. 



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