NATURALISTS CABINET. 



Manner of filling its pouch 



THE RED-BACKED PELICAN. 

 THIS bird, like others of its race, is very vo- 

 racious. Mr. Lewis, a navy surgeon, described 

 to Dr. Latham the mode in which some of them 

 that had been brought up tame, stowed its food 

 into its pouch. " A number of different sized 

 fishes were laid before it on the ground ; it first 

 attempted to take up one that weighed ten 

 pounds, but the bill was much too weak for this 

 exertion; it however, picked up as many as ten 

 others, each of which weighed about a pound, 

 and arranged them in rows with their heads to- 

 wards the throat: and after this, it walked off in 

 a very stately manner, with the bag hanging down 

 to its feet. The pouch held two gallons of water." 



THE GREAT GREY GULL 



WEIGHS twelve or fourteen ounces, and is 

 from the point of the bill to the extremity of the 

 tail, about twenty inches; and from the point of 

 each wing when extended, very near four feet. 

 The bill is black, and near three inches long, the 

 upper mandible something longer than the under, 

 and a little hooked, or inclining downwards over 

 it; the lower has a rising, or crooked set, towards 

 the extremity : the eyes are grey, the nostrils in 

 a sort of oblong form, the head very large; the 

 necks of these birds in general are so short, that 

 when they walk or stand, they appear so much 



