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Genus XCIIL P e l e c a n. xv « 
Common Pelecan. 
Pelecanus Onocratalus, Lin. Syft. 215. 
P. with the head Rightly crefted : plumage, white, tinged with a 
fine blofTom color : the primaries, black : legs and feet, pur- 
plifh: webs, dufky. 
Size, fometimes double that of a Swan : bill, twenty inches long : 
extent of wings, eleven feet eight, Englijh *. 
Inhabits the Danube , in its paftage through Hungary : abounds in 
Africa and Afia , in feveral parts : numbers about the Cafpian 
feaj and it is not unknown on lake Baikal. Found alfo of a 
vaft fize in New Holland . 
Genus the fame. XVI ® 
Frigat Pelecan. 
Pelecanus A q_u i l u s, Lin. Syft. a 16. 
P. with a Render bill, hooked at the end : under the lower mandible, 
a vaft naked fcarlet pouch, like a bladder, extending down the 
whole front of the neck. The ufes of this pouch to this and 
the former fpecies, is to convey food to their young : the com- 
mon Pelecan, which often breeds in arid deferts, makes it a ve- 
hicle for water for its young brood. Color of the plumage of the 
male, a deep brown, or chocolate ; the coverts of the wings 
lighteft, and tinged with ruft color: the longeft feather in the tail, 
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