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PELECANINJE* SULA. 
but is often eaten by tlie poor, as are the young. Neither 
this nor the other species fly under water, but propel them- 
selves by synchronous beats of the feet, with amazing speed. 
Both may be tamed, but this less easily than the other. Their 
affection for their young is very great. 
This being certainly Pelecanus Graculus of Linnaeus and 
Latham, I see no reason for changing the name to cristatus, 
and transferring it to another species. 
Crested Cormorant, Shag-Scart. Green Scart or Scarve. 
Common Scart. Green Scout. 
Pelecanus Graculus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 217. — Pelecanus 
Graculus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 887 ; cristatus, 888.— Carbo 
cristatus, Temm. Man. d ? Ornith. ii. 900. 
GENUS CXLY. SULA. GANNET. 
The Gannets, of which one species occurs on our coasts, 
are organized far plunging from a height upon their finned 
prey, and are thus physiologically out of place among the 
Divers. In fact one half of the family of the Pelecaninse 
belongs to the Urinatrices, and the other to the Mersatrices. 
In the genus Sula, the body is of moderate bulk, rather 
elongated ; the neck of moderate length, and very thick ; 
the head large. Bill longer than the head, opening beyond 
the eyes, straight, elongated, conical, moderately compressed ; 
upper mandible with the ridge very broad, convex, separated 
by grooves from the sides, which are slightly convex and 
perpendicular, with a slender jointed additional piece be- 
neath the eye, the edges sharp, direct, irregularly jagged with 
numerous incisions directed backwards, the tip a little de- 
curve d, and rather acute ; lower mandible with the angle 
extremely long and narrow, the sides erect and convex, the 
edges sharp and serrated, the tip compressed and acute. 
There is a small gular sac, of which a part is bare. Mouth 
wide, pale, flat, ridged ; tongue extremely small, blunt ; 
oesophagus extremely wide, much dilated below ; pro ventri- 
cular glands forming a broad belt, partially divided ; stomach 
extremely small and thin ; intestine of moderate length, 
slender ; coeca very small. Nostrils obliterated in the adult, 
*open in the young. Eyes rather small, surrounded and 
preceded by a bare space. Apertures of ears small. Feet 
short, placed rather far behind ; tibiae concealed by the 
