PELECANUS. 
body black, glofled with violet. It is found about Kamt- 
fchatka and the ifles. 
19. Pelecanus urile, the red-faced (hag: (hining green, 
throat white, face bluifh red. Length two feet ten in¬ 
ches 5 bill three inches and a half long; the bafe of a 
reddifh green, the end black : round the eye a bare white 
(kin : back and wings duflcy black, but glofly ; the back 
has alfo a glofs of green in fome lights, with here and 
there a white (lender feather : the belly is wholly black : 
on each fide of the rump a large patch of white feathers : 
tail fix inches in length, confifting of twelve feathers : 
colour of the quills black: legs black. It inhabits 
Kamtfchatka, chiefly about the rocky and craggy places 
cm the fea-coafts, where it builds its neft in June. The 
eggs are the fize of a hen’s, of a green colour, and very ill 
tafted ; notwithftanding which the natives think it worth 
while torlimb the rocks for them at the hazard of their 
lives. Like others of the genus, it feeds on fifli, fwallow- 
ing them whole. It flies well and fwiftly ; but rifes with 
difficulty from the ground. While fitting on the rocks 
it is very ftupid, being overcome with deep, and not eafily 
roufed ; hence the natives catch them eafily, 1>y means of 
nets thrown over them, or noofes at the end of long 
poles; and not unfrequently thefe filly birds fuffer them- 
felves to be taken one after another to the very lad. As 
food, every one but a Kamtfchadale mult refufe it; yet 
this nation think it very tolerable, whether owing to the 
method of cooking or not, is uncertain : their method is 
to road: it in holes in the earth, whole, without plucking 
off the feathers, or taking out the entrails, and after it is 
done enough they (kin and eat it. It is faid to have no 
tongue; yet it is averred that it cries morning and even¬ 
ing, not greatly unlike the blowing of a trumpet. 
20. Pelecanus nasvius, the fpotted fliag : black; tail 
rounded, orbits naked, dingy red; front and hind head 
crefted ; a white curved ftripe from the eye to the wing; 
wing-coverts fpotted with black. 
This fpecies, which is fupprefied by Dr. Turton in his 
tranflation of Gmelin, is the Crefted Shag of Cook’s laft 
Voyage, vol. i. p. 151. and is reprefented on the annexed 
Plate at fig. 3. It might indeed be called dotible-crefted, 
or two-crefted ; for juft over the forehead arife fome long 
feathers, forming a pointed creft; and at the hind part of 
the head a fecond, not unlike thefirft, but rather longer, 
fome of the feathers meafuring an inch and a half. Juft 
over the eye begins a ftripe of white, which pafles down 
on each fide of the neck quite to the wing, and growing 
broader as it proceeds downwards. The middle of the 
back, and the wings, are of a brownifh afli-colour, each 
feather tipped at the end with a round fpot of black, 
largeft on the wing-coverts, but no where bigger than a 
fmall pea : quills not fpotted : from the middle of the 
back to the end of the tail, and from between the legs to 
the vent, black glofled with green.: tail three inches in 
length, rounded at the end 5 that and the quills plain 
black : legs deep brown or black. This fpecies inhabits 
New Zealand, and builds among the rocks ; it is met with 
principally in Queen Charlotte’s Sound, where it is known 
by the name of pa degga-degga. Length two feet, or more. 
21. Pelecanus carunculatus, the carunculated drag: 
black, beneath white ; bill duflcy : fides of the head bare of 
feathers ; between the bill and eye much carunculated, and 
red ; the reft of the fpace round the eye afh-colour ; the 
orbits of a fine mazarine blue, and elevated; and over the 
eye is a tubercle larger than the reft. The irides are 
whitifti, or very pale brown : the head fomewhat flat on 
the fides, and the crown rather full of feathers: the top 
of the head, and fides of it, the hind part of the neck, and 
all the upper parts of the body, the wings, and tail, are 
black, except a longifli patch of white on the wing-co¬ 
verts: the forehead, chin, and all beneath, white: the 
legs are fle(h-colour, or very pale brown.. This inhabits 
New Zealand ; and is found in Queen Charlotte’s Sound, 
though not in plenty ; but was met with by millions in 
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Staaten-land; and is faid by our voyagers to build in 
towns. Length twenty inches. 
22. Pelecanus Magellanicus, the Magellanic fliag; 
b*lack, beneath white: bill three inches long, and black : 
fides of the head, and chin, bare, and reddifti ; tail 
wedged. The head and neck fomewhat glofly, and the 
feathers of the firft feem full, making that part appear 
larger than it is ; but the head is by no means crefted : 
behind each eye a fpot of white. It inhabits Terra del 
Fuego and Staaten-land : in Chriftmas Sound it builds by 
thoufands among the rocks, choofing fuch places where 
they projeft over the fea, or at leaft where they rife per¬ 
pendicularly, that, in cafe the young fall out, they may 
take no harm, dropping only into the water. Length 
thirty-fix inches. 
23. Pelecanus varius, the pied fliag: brown, beneath 
white; bill four inches and a half; the top of it duflcy; 
the bare fpace about the eye, yellow : over the eyes a 
narrow ftreak of a pale colour : the head, hind part of the 
neck, back, wings, and tail, are brown; the middle of the 
back, and wing-coverts, paleft; the margins of the laft 
almoft white, or very pale : the lower part of the back, 
rump, and thighs, very deep brown, nearly black : quills 
black ; tail rounded, and fix inches or more in length ; 
legs flefli-colour: claws duflcy. This fpecies inhabits 
New Zealand, and was met with frequently in Queen 
Charlotte’s Sound. It builds in trees, on which a dozen 
or more are feen at once. The egg is two inches and a 
half long, rather (mailer than that of a hen, and of a pale 
bluifli white. Length of the full-grown bird, thirty 
inches. 
24. Pelecanus cirratus, the tufted (hag: black, beneath 
white ; bill duflcy yellow ; round the eye bare : the head 
crefted; on the wing-coverts is an oblong patch of white.The 
tail is four inches and a half in length, rounded in fliape, 
and compofed of fourteen feathers: the legs pale yellow 
brown. This was brought from Queen Charlotte’s Sound ; 
and is in the Hunterian Mufeum. Size of the preceding. 
25. Pelecanus Africanus, the African fliag: brown, be¬ 
neath variegated, chin white; fcapulars and wing-coverts 
blue grey, each feather margined all round, and tipped 
with black : the three firft greater quills pale brown, in¬ 
clining to cinnamon ; the reft brown black: fecondaries 
as long as the quills, of a duflcy black, edged with brown. 
The tail confifts of twelve feathers, is cuneiform in fliape, 
the two middle feathers being (even inches long, the 
outer three inches and a half only ; the four middle ones, 
and the outer on each fide, are pale brown, the others 
black. Inhabits Africa; and is about twenty inches 
long. 
II. Bill ferrate. 
26. Pelecanus thagus, the faw-billed pelican : brown ; 
tail rounded ; gullet pouched, and covered with fliort ci¬ 
nereous feathers. Bill a foot long, each mandible hook¬ 
ed ; pouch very large ; legs black. Inhabits Chili; fize 
of a turkey ; extent of wings nine feet. 
27. Pelecanus baflanus, the gannet, or Soland goofe : 
tail wedged; body white; bill and quill-feathers black; 
face blue ; irides yellowifti ; tail-feathers twelve ; eyes 
furrounded with a naked lkin of fine blue ; legs black, 
and greenifh on the fore part; the feet long. 
Linnaeus gave the name of Bajfanus to this fpecies, be- 
caufe it is a native of the Bafs-ifle, a ftupendous rock in 
the Frith of Forth, near Edinburgh. It is about the fize 
of a common goofe ; weight (even pounds; length near 
three feet, alar extent fix. The gannet inhabits all the 
northern ides, but in particular that of the Bafs in Scot¬ 
land. It generally firft makes its appearance in March, 
and, after making a circuit of the ifland, departs in 0£lo- 
ber or November. 'Phis race feems to be in purfuit after 
the herrings and pilchards, whofe motions it watches; and 
fifliermen know the coming of thele fifli by the appearance 
of the birds. That this is the inducement feems pro- 
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