Identifier: britishzoology02penn (find matches)
Title: British zoology
Year: 1776 (1770s)
Authors: Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
Subjects: Zoology -- Great Britain
Publisher: Warrington, Printed by W. Eyres, for B. White, London
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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a. 133,Sula Bafiana, le Fou de Baf- fan. BriJJon a>v. VI. 503. tab. 44.Pelecanus Bafianus. Lin. fyft. 217.Aorvegis Sule, Hav-Sul. 2?/7/«- «/V£, 124.Br. Zoo/. 160. Descrip. npHIS fpecies weighs feven pounds: the length* is three feet one inch; the breadth fix feettwo inches. The bill is fix inches long, (trait al-moft to the point, where it inclines down^ andthe fides are irregularly jagged, that it may holdits prey with more fecurity: about an inch fromthe bafe of the upper mandible is a fliarp pro-cefs pointing forward; it has no noftrils -, but intheir place a long furrow, that reaches almoft tothe end of the bill: the whole is of a dirty white,tinged with am color. The tongue is very final),and placed low in the mouth: a naked fldn of afine blue furrounds the eyes, which are of a paleyellow, and are full of vivacity : this bird is re-markable for the quicknefs of its fight: Martintells us that Solan is derived from an Irijh wordexpreflive of that quality. From pi. cm. GAN^E T
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Class II. G A N N E T. 613 From the corner of the mouth is a narrow flip ofblack bare fkin, that extends to the hind part ofthe head : beneath the chin is another, that likethe pouch of the Pelecan, is dilatable, and of fizefufficient to contain five or fix entire herrings;which, in the breeding fealbn, it carries at once toits mate or young. The neck is very long: the body flat, and veryfull of feathers : the crown of the head, and a fmallfpace on the hind part of the neck is buff co-lored : the reft of the plumage is white: the baftardwing and greater quil-feather excepted, which areblack; the legs and toes are black; but the forepart of both are marked with a ftripe of fine peagreen. The tail confifts of twelve fharp pointedfeathers, the middle of which is the longed. The young birds, during the firft year, differ You jig.greatly in color from the. old ones* being of aduiky hue, fpeckled with- numerous triangularwhite fpots-, and at that time refemble in colorsthe fpeckled Diver. E

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