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_ Bavaria, whichcis in Germany, that lived there 
forty years,’ and was very tame, and feemed to ‘be 
pleafed with mutfic. | | 
- Pelicans are found moftly mn warm countries. 
Thete are many in Africa ; andin Siam, and China, 
(which are in Afia;) they are found in America, 
_ in'the Bay of Panama, and almott as far north as 
 Hudfon’s Bays; he: infide of the pouch of the 
Pelican is not warm like the ftomach, and does 
not fpoil the fifh; and if the pouch be prefled 
_againit the breaft, he immediately throws up the 
fifth: the Pelican for this purpofe preffes his pouch 
__-with his bill. The Pelican’s neft is near the edge 
of the water, and placed upon the ground; it 13 
made of grafs, and deeply hollowed, and lined 
with foft grafs. . If the Pelican be difturbed whilft 
fhe is fitting, fhe takes her eggs out of the nef 
with her bill, and drops them into the water; and 
when her fright is paft, fhe brings them back again, - 
A The Pelican is a great deftroyer of fifh, for he 
~ eatscas many at one meal, as would fatisfy fix mens 
He can eafily {wallow a fith that weighs feven or 
eight pounds.; and will fometimes fwallow rats. 
‘There was'a tame Pelican that ufed to follow. the ~ 
fthermen to market, and. if they did not make 
~ hafte to tie up his bag, he would quickly {teal 
| ie part of their fith, : 
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