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o f their food, and are faid to confume annually no lefs than
twenty-two thoufand fix hundred young birds, befides an amazing
quantity of eggs: they preferve both eggs and fowls in fmall pyramidal
Hone buildings, covering them with turf-ajbes to preferve
them from: moifture. T o procure thefe birds, the natives run
great hazard, in being lowered down from the top of the cliffs by
ropes, and not unfrequently perilh in the attempt *.
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V ar. A.
Le grand Foil, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 497. 2.— Buf- Of. viU. p. 372.
Great Booby, Catejb. Car. i. pt. 86- (the bead).
Description. rJ^'HIS is about the fize of a Goofe, but the tail is longer.
The bill a little more than five inches long, and of a grey
brown : irides hazel: fpace between the bill and eye bare of feathers,
being covered only with a dulky Ikin : the head, neck, and
breaft, and all the upper parts, deep brown, marked with white
fpots; which are fmall and more numerous on the head, and
larger and fewer in number on the back and breaft: the belly,
and reft of the under parts, dirty white: quills and tail brown :
legs black,
P i a c r . Inhabits the Ihores of Florida, where it is frequent,' It appears,
to be no other than the young of the Gamut.
• For the*above, as well as the general account of the manners,, fee Br. Zool*
—•for the method itfelf, fee Ar&* Zool. Introd, p, xxix. pi, IV.
Pelecanu»
Pelêcanus Pifcator, Lin. Sjfi. i. p. 217.— Aman. Acad, iv, p. 239. 8. i3.
(ftemina).-—OJbeck. Voy. i. p. 127.
Le Fou blanc, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 501. 4.— Buf. Oif. viii. p. 371.
inches long, ferrated on the edges, and reddilh : fpace between
the bill and eyes naked, and of the fame colour: throat naked,
dulky black: general colour of the plumage white, except the
greater wing coverts and quills, which are black: the fcapulars
are alfo black at the ends; thé tail confifts of fourteen feathers; is
cuneiform in lhape; the bafe white, but black the reft of their
length : the legs red: the middle claw broad and ferrated.
This fpecies is faid to inhabit China, where it is called Bubbi;
and is fuppofed to be one of the forts ufed by the Chinefe to Catch
fijh, a ring being placed round the neck. Some birds have thofe
parts of a deep brown which in others are black.
The male is faid to be wholly black, with a hoary belly: bill
and legs as in the other. But I much fufpecl it to be the brown
Booby, if not fome other fpecies, and not related at all to the
white one. I am led to think this from a drawing of the laft, the
notes belonging to which obferve, that it is common in the IJland
of Afcenfion •, and particularly mention, that there is no difference
of plumage in either lex.
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