324 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
secure their food by thrusting the head under water, but not keeping it below the surface 
for any length of time. The peculiar bony process on the ridge of the tat mandible 
appears to be used for the purpose of defen nce, when combating with their ont in some 
old individuals it is much abraded and wo orn, apparently caused by many and severe con- 
tests 
Eudibon thus speaks of its habits :— 
anged along the margins of the s sand-bar, in broken array, stand a hundred heavy-. 
bodied Pelicans, pluming themselves. ag e gorged Pelicans patiently wait the return of 
unger. Should one chance to gape, all, as if by sympathy, in succession open long and 
broad mandibles, yawning lazily and itai. 
I one afternoon observed a number of White Pelicans swimming against the wind and 
Current, with their wings partially extended, their neck stretched out, the upper man- 
dible alone linge rep ove the surface, while the lower must have been used as a scoop- 
r m 
bill immediately Pas to a perpendicular position, the water was allowed to run out, and ne 
bill being again r raised u u pwards, the fish was swallow ed, er thus swimming for about a 
h 
and narall h +h er, pi 7 $ +h in o 
wheel. about, and arg a t sbe: place where the ir fishing commenced, w hey would 
mee of si er hano destroyed b by : ‘inte bint is quite 
extraordinary On pcm we found in it of fishes, of the 
size of what are usually pag minnows. Tis cn is rank, fishy. nause "Tne fe- 
eis rather smaller a the male, and, in as far as I a vidios by the poner a 
of several individu. tating, is destitute of the horny crest of the upper ma 
Judging from è bony process on the bill, which was sai one 
inch high and two and a half inches s long, I concluded, from the de- 
scription given above, y this bird was a male; but upon dissection, 
I was much surprised to find the specimen a female. 
The œsophagus contained two flat-fish (Bream or map 
Pomotis vulgaris) in quite a perfect condition, one of which w 
and the other eight inches in length. There were also the remains of 
two alpine which must have been eight or ten inches in length. I 
found no small fish. Mr. Cave, Legal es the bird, saw her fishing, aS 
paral by Audubon. — W. J. B 
CURIOUS MODE OF GESTATION IN Fısn.—Dr. W. Turner, of Edin- 
burgh, described the very curious method of gestation in a new fish, 
belonging to the genus Arius, which he had received from Ceylon. 
und, where they were caught in ae numbers by the 
natives. i peened of itis British Museum, said it was very re- 
rica there was a fish almost exactly like 
_ that which Dr. Turner had poer and Agassiz had lately described 
several others from the Amazon, possessing this curious method of 
gestation; none, however, had been observed in Africa. — Quarterly 
Journal of Science, London. 
