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Plate 90. Dampier , in paffing between 2 ?r< 7/27 and the CW/tf of Good Hope> 
fays, t5 We palled by a dead Whale, and faw (as I may fay) Millions of Sea-Fowls 
<£ about the Carcafs, (and as far round about it as we could fee) fome feeding, and 
<£ the reft flying about, or fitting on the Water, waiting to take their Turns. We 
“ fir ft difcovered the Whale by the Fowls, for indeed I never faw fo many 
“ Fowls at once in my Life before, their Numbers being inconceivably great : 
<£ They were of divers Sorts, in Bignefs, Shape and Colour. Some were almoft as 
<£ big as Geefe, of a grey Colour, with white Breads, and with fuch Bills, Wings 
t£ and Tails. Some were Pintado-Birds, (our White and Black- fpotted Peteril) as 
<£ big as Ducks, and fpeckled Black and White. • Some were Shear-waters, fome 
t£ Peterils . We faw of thefe Birds, elpecially the Pintado-Birds , all the Sea over, 
t£ from about two hundred Leagues diftant from the Coaft of Brafil \ to within much 
<£ the fame Diftance of New Holland. The Pintado is a Southern Bird, keeping 
C£ within the Southern Temperate Zone , for I never faw any of them much to the 
t£ Northward of thirty Degrees South: The Pintado is as big as a Duck, but appears 
<c as it flies, about the Size of a tame Pigeon.” Dampier proceeds to deferibe 
the Pintado and the little Peteril , which feem to me to be the fame Birds J have 
deferibed in P. go. I think he hath alfo deferibedthe Great black Peteril, figured 
by me in Plate 89. See Dampier' § Voyage to New Holland, P. 96, 97. He fays, all 
thefe Sorts of Birds fly many of them together, nothigh, but almoft fweeping the 
Water. 
Plate 93. Pelicans are large flat-footed Water-Fowls, almoft as big as 
Geefe, and their Feathers in Colour like them: They have fhort Legs, long Necks, 
and their Bills are about two Inches broad, and feventeen or eighteen Inches Jong: 
The Fore-Part of their Neck or Breaft is bare of Feathers, but covered with a foft, 
fmooth, yet loofe Skin, like that about the Necks of Turkies. This Skin is of the 
Colour of their Feathers, mixed with a dark and light Grey,, fo exactly interwoven 
that it appears very beautiful. They are very heavy Birds, and feldom fly far, or 
very high from the Water : They commonly fit on Rocks at fome Diftance from 
the Shore, where they may look about them: They feem to be very melancholy 
Fowls, by their perching all alone : They fit as if they were fleeping, holding their 
Heads upright, and refting the Ends of their Bills on their Breads : They are better 
Meat than Boobies , or Men of War Birds . See Dampier' s Voyage to the Bay of Cam- 
peachy, P. 70. The fame Author alfo faw Pelicans in New Holland. See his Voyage 
to New Holland, P. 123. 
Plate 103. Th zQuick-hatch y or Wolverene, being near of Kin to the Bear „ 
I have here inferted an Obfervation of Mr. John Bartram , which difeovers one of 
the Methods the Bears in North America take to provide themfelves with Sufte- 
nance ; and it is likely the ^nick-hatch may have the fame Sagacity. He fays, in 1 
paffing through a difmal Wildernefs, we obferved an old Log which the Bears had 
lately turned to get at the Snails, Beetles and Grubs that were on the under Side of 
it. I fhall here alfo mention an Obfervation Mr. Bartram made, of the Treat- 
ment Dogs meet with amongft the fix Nations to the Weft of Penflvania .. Fie fays,, 
