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and fo ‘nclofe the fith, and take them with very 
little trouble. 
Thefe birds generally fifth in the morning, or 
the evening, and chufe, thofe parts where there are 
the greateft number of fith. It is amufing to fee 
them fkim juft above the water, then rife a little, 
"and plunge with their bags half full of fifh; then 
rife with difficulty, and plunge again ; and fo con- 
tinue until their large pouches be full: they then 
perch themfelves on the points of the rocks, and 
eat and digeft their food at their leifure ; and fay 
there, feemingly ftupid, all day, until the evening, 
and then they go to fifh again. 
Labat mentions, that fome favages had tamed 
a Pelican; that they fent him out in a morning, 
and that he would return, with his pouch full of 
fifh, which they made him throw out. 
The feathers of the Pelican’s neck are downy, © 
on the back of the head they are longer, and form 
a.kind of creft;. the. eyes-are fmall, and placed 
in the middle of two large naked circles. His — 
pouch will contain twenty pints of water, and is 
fo large, that a man can put his arm into it, up 
‘to his elbow. ‘here was a Pelican in the ifland 
of Rhodes, (which is in the Mediterranean Sea, 
near the coaft of Turkey in Afia) that ufed to 
walk about the town ; and there was one in 
Bavaria, 
