442 PELICAN. 



A specimen of this was in the Museum of the late Dr. Hunter, 

 I also find it copied among Mr Dent's drawings ; the place it came 

 from not mentioned, but I suspect it to be from Cayenne, as the Dr. 

 had a large collection of birds from that part. 



39— LESSER BOOBY. 



Pelecanus parvus, Tnd. Orn. ii. 893. Gm. Lin. i. 579. 

 Le petit Fou de Cayenne, Buf. viii. 374. PI. enl. 973. 

 Lesser Boob}-, Gen. Syn. vi. 614. 



LENGTH scarcely eighteen inches. Bill pretty straight, and 

 the space round the eye bare ; bill and legs yellow; throat, breast, 

 and belly, white ; the rest of the plumage dusky black. 



Inhabits Cayenne. 



