Try out the new Click here!  The Pelican   three gallons of
water.  When the pelican goes to seek for its food, it flies up
into the air for some distance, then turns its head on one side,
and with one eye looks sharply down into the water until it sees
a fish. Then it darts down very swiftly, and is almost sure to
seize it. Instead of eating the fish at once, it usually stores
it away in its pouch, and watches for another. When its bag is
filled, it flies away to some lonely place to satisfy its
hunger, or to feed its young. In order to get out the fish, it
presses its bill against its breast; and this has led some
people to believe that it pierces its breast, and feeds its
young ones with its own blood. Of course this is only a fable.
The pelican likes to live in lonely places, such as a rocky
island in the midst of the ocean, where nobody will come near to
disturb it: it is for this reason that David says in the 102d
Psalm, "I am like a pelican in the wilderness," or solitary
place. I suppose he wrote thi