Part I. Of ^Palmipede s. 
great Divers. Their Legs are joyned to the Leins near 
their Rump 5 That they may both (Vim and dive with the 
greated fwiftnefs and eafe. (a) And their Bodies being 00 ibid, 
hereby extended To much the farther from tire centre of 
gravity, it becomes the more laborious to them to walk, 
and fo inclines them to keep more on the water, as their 
fitted: place; (b) as the fame Author much to this purpofe. p. 258; 
The Skin of this Bird is fometimes worn on the Head and & 2 5? ‘ 
Brcaft to keep them warm 3 and preferred before the Swans. 
The BILL of the GREATEST LOON. It belongs to 
the fird Species , but the Bird was of leffer growth. 
The two' EEET of the GREAT NORWEGIAN 
LOON. (c) (Y) wiil; 
The FOOT of the LESSER LOON, called the DIDAP- o™. 
PER or DOBCHICK. See the Defcription of the Bird in 
Mr. Willugbby. All the Loons breed in Mona , Farr a , and 
other Scotifh Idands. 
The FOOT of the SHAG, called Graadus Valmipes. 
See the Bird in Mr. Willugbby. He is a little bigger than 
a Tame Drake. His Foot ftands more floaping than in 
the Loon 5 the inmod Toe being the longed. It is obfer- 
vable, that of all Web-footed Fowl ox Palmipede’s, only 
the Shag and the Cormorant , arc known to fit and build 
their Neds in Trees, (d) 60 Wii- 
The PELECANE. Onocrotalus , from the noife he makes p 8 2 h 4 g rnithi 
like an Afs. See the Defcription hereof in Aldrovandus , 
Willugbby , and others. I add, That the fhortnefs of his 
Trunk or Body, in refpcct to the other Parts, is obferva- 
ble; not being a foot long : whereas from the end of his 
Bill to his Pmrnp, he’s near an Eln long : and to the end of 
his Toes, he’s above a yard and half. I fhall deferibe his 
Bill a little more particularly. 
The upper Beak, from the bottom of his Forehead, is 
fourteen inches long 5 behind an inch over, and convex 
or ridged 3 before, an inch and half over, and almod flat. 
It is compofed of three Bones 3 the end of the middlemod 
is hooked like a Hawks Bill 3 the edges of the two utmod 
are fharp, and bended downwards 5 all made rough with¬ 
in with five or fix edged-lines running through the length 
of the Beak: thus well contriv’d for the holding the mod 
dippery Prey. The end of the nether Beak, is almod like 
the 
