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CHAPTER IX. 
PINNIPEDES; SWIMMING FEET. PELICAN ■ — FABLE OF 
DRAWING ITS BLOOD EXPLAINED MODE OF FISH- 
ING. — SEA-BIRDS FEEDING ON FISH THROWN UP BY 
WHALES. — - CORMORANTS VORACITY OF MAY BE 
TAMED FIERCENESS OF. FRIGATE BIRD. SOLAN 
GOOSE LIGHTNESS AND BUOYANCY OF NESTS.— 
AUHIN GAS OR DARTERS. 
Table XXVIII. (See vol. i., p. 23.) 
Order 6. Palmipedes. Tribe 2. Pinnipedes 
( Swimming-feet ). 
The birds of this Table are, like the preceding, web- 
footed, but they differ from them in having the 
back-toe so united with the others as to form 
one continuous web, having, in some instances, a 
toothed claw on the second toe ; and what is very 
TOOTHED CLAW OF CORMORANT’S FOOT. 
singular, notwithstanding this peculiarity, which, it 
might be supposed, while it rendered them more fit 
for swimming, would entirely prevent their clinging 
