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* He fo calls * Craw. In the Head I difcovered two manifeft but fmall holes reaching to the brain, 

 der che eS". which ferved for fmelling. Wanting a Tongue it muft make that uncouth found, like 

 the braying of an Afs, by the help of its Larynx only. I heard not this, but the 

 Keeper of this Bird, that carried it up and down to (hew, when he provoked it, 

 (hiking it on the Bill, and the Bird feemed angry, and ready to peck or ftrike with its 

 Bill, fo that it would fometimes catch hold of his hand, it made a noife fomewhat like 

 the cry of a Goofe, and that a fmall and hoarfe one. 



The noble Lord Jo.Carolus Schaad related to me,that a great while fince there were 

 three Pelecans fhot in the River Danovo running through -Bavaria, two of which were 

 kilfd,the third brought alive to theDuke of Bavaria sCouYt^whcre it lived forty years. 

 It was much delighted in the company and converfation of men, and in Mufick both 

 Vocal and Inftrumental. For it would willingly ftand by thofe that fung or founded 

 the Trumpet, and ftretching out its Head, and turning its Ear to the Mufick, liftenecf 

 very attentively to that fweet harmony, though its own voice is faid to be like the 

 braying of an Afs. This confirms what we read in Aldrovand of the age of the Pelecan. 

 which was kept fifty years at Mechlin, and was verily believed to be eighty years old. 

 Thus far Faber. 



It is lingular in this Bird, that its bones are pellucid, folid, without any marrow at 

 all within 5 and that the divifion of the Wind-pipe into two branches is near about 

 the middle of the ftomach, which I never obferved in any other bird, faith Al- 

 drovand. 



This bird feeds upon fifh, as do all the reft of this kind. Faber law it fwallow two 

 ticfh Hakes, that weighed about four pounds, whole. 



Many of them frequent the River Danow, but breed not there. BeUonius faith he 

 law flocks ofOnocrotali in Egypt : Olaus Magnus writes, that they are frequent in the 

 Northern Countries. Oviedus reports, that there is often teen a great flock of them 

 about Panama in the Weft Indies, where they breed on the adjacent Rocks and 

 Iflandr. There are faid to be of them likewife on the Cafpian Sea. Of old time it 

 feems they have frequented the Coaft of Italy about Ravenna, for Martial hath it, 

 Turpe Ravennatk guttur Onocrotali. Matthiolm makes them very common in the Sea- 

 coafts of Tufiany, efpecially about the Cape Argentaro, being frequently found 

 about Port Hercole, and the Lake of Urbicello, where the Inhabitants call them Agrot- 

 ti. What credit this deferves ( faith Faber) I know not, this I know, that many of 

 Matthiolus his Country men have fcarce ever feen fo much as the Picture of an Ono- 

 trotalus, which if they were lb common there, would not fure be accounted (rich, 

 ftrange things as to be carried about to Ihew at Rome, and in other places of Italy. 



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Chap. II. 

 Tlie Solarid Goofe : Anfer Baflanus. 



TN bignefs it equals a tame Goofe. It is by meafure from the tip of the Bill to the end 

 1 of the Feet thirty four inches long : To the end of the Tail thirty nine. Its Wings 

 are of an extraordinary length, for being extended their extreme tips are feventy 

 two inches diftant. 



Its Bill is long, ftreight, of a dark afh-colour, a little crooked at the point, having 

 on each fide not far from the hook an angular Appendix or tooth, like the Bills of 

 fome rapacious birds. , Beyond the Eyes the skin on the fides of the Head is bare o£ 

 feathers, as in the Cormorant. The Palate, and all the infideof the Mouth is black: 

 *0s byoides. The flit of the Mouth huge wide. At the angle of the * Z)p(ilon-]\ke bone is a very 

 fmall Tongue : The Ears of a mean fize : The Eyes hazel-coloured. [ In another bird 

 they were yellow.] By a diligent fearch we could find no Nofthrils, but in their ftead 

 a furrow or cranny extended on each fide through the whole length of the Bill. If 

 one view them attentively the edges of both Mandibles appear ferrat, that it may 

 more firmly hold the filfi that it catcheth. It hath four fore-toes 5 for all its four toes 

 are web'd together, and ftand forward. The Legs are feathered down to the knees ; 

 The Feet and Legs, as far as they are bare, black : The Claw of the middle Toe is 

 broad, and pectinated on the infide as in Herons. The Plumage is like that of a 

 Goofe. The colour of the old ones that have moulted their Chicken-feathers is all 

 over white, excepting the greater quil-feathers of the Wings, which are black, and 



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