British zoology . Catejby has given the figureof the head of one, which he calls the Greater * PUnih lib. x. c. 44. Booby; 6zo G A N N E T. Class II. Booby •, his defcription fuits that of the young Gan-nett but the angle on the lower mandible madeus formerly fufpect that it was not the fame bird;but from fome late informations we have been fa-vored with, we find it is common to both coun-tries, and during fummer frequents North the Penguin, it informs navigators of the ap-proach of foundings, who on fight of it drop theplummet. Linnaus claffes our bird with the Pete-can -, in the
British zoology . Catejby has given the figureof the head of one, which he calls the Greater * PUnih lib. x. c. 44. Booby; 6zo G A N N E T. Class II. Booby •, his defcription fuits that of the young Gan-nett but the angle on the lower mandible madeus formerly fufpect that it was not the fame bird;but from fome late informations we have been fa-vored with, we find it is common to both coun-tries, and during fummer frequents North the Penguin, it informs navigators of the ap-proach of foundings, who on fight of it drop theplummet. Linnaus claffes our bird with the Pete-can -, in the tenth edition of his fyftem, he con-founds it with the bird defcribed by Sir HansShane, hift. Jam. vol. I. p. 31. preface, whofecolors differ from the Gannet in each ftage of life:but in his laft edition he very properly feparatesthem. We continue it in the fame clafs, under thegenerical name of Corvorants, as more familiar tothe Englifh ear than that of Pelecan. APPENDIX. APPENDIX, ROUGH LE(il) FALCON -1// -. APPENDIX. Birds now extinct in Great Britain,or fuch as wander here accidentally. LAND BIRDS. I. ROUGH LEGD FALCON. THIS fpecies is a native of Denmark^ but wasfhot in and is preferved in the Le- verian Mufeum. Its length is two feet two inches: that of thewing, when clofed, eighteen inches: the billdufky ; the cere yellow : the head, neck, and breadof a yellowifh white, marked in fome parts withoblong brown ftrokes: the belly of a deep brown :thighs and legs of a pale yellow, marked withbrown: the fcapulars blotched with brown andyellowifh white: coverts of the wings brown,edged with ruft: ends of the primaries deepbrown; the lower parts white: the extreme halfof the tail brown, tipt with dirty white: that nextto the body white. Legs covered with feathers aslow as the feet: the feet yellow. II. ROLLER. 624 APPENDIX. II. R O L L E R. Roller. WiU on. 13 j. SpranfkKraka, Blakraka, Al* Garrulus argent or at ep^fis. Raii lekraka. Faun. 94. Jyn. at, 41. Ed-iv. 109.
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