jo THE NATURAL HISTORY 
and f inclofe the hth, and take them with very 
little trouble. 
Thefe: birds generally fith in ae morning, or 
the evening, and chufe thofe parts where there are 
the createft 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 fifth; 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 {tay 
‘there, feemingly ftupid, all day, until the aNHENE, 
and then they go to fith again. 

Labat mentions, that fome favages had saad q 
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 ; 5 | 
on the back of the head they are longer, and form . 
a kind of creft; the eyes are {mall, 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. There was a Pelican in the ifland 
of Rhodes, (which is in the Mediterranean Dea, 
near the coaft of ‘Turkey in Afia) that ufed to — 
walk abqut the town ; and there was one in 
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