קאת, Lev. xi, 18; Deut. xiv, 17; Psa. cii, 7; Isa. xxxiv, 11;
Zeph. ii, 14; a very remarkable aquatic bird, of the size of a large
goose. Its colour is a grayish white, except that the neck looks a
little yellowish, and the middle of the back feathers are blackish. The
bill is long, and hooked at the end, and has under it a lax membrane,
extended to the throat, which makes a bag or sack, capable of holding a
very large quantity. Feeding her young from this bag has so much the
appearance of feeding them with her own blood, that it caused this
fabulous opinion to be propagated, and made the pelican an emblem of
paternal, as the stork had been before chosen, more justly, of filial
affection. The voice of this bird is harsh and dissonant, which some say
resembles that of a man grievously complaining. David compares his
groaning to it, Psalm cii, 7.
Zeph. ii, 14; a very remarkable aquatic bird, of the size of a large
goose. Its colour is a grayish white, except that the neck looks a
little yellowish, and the middle of the back feathers are blackish. The
bill is long, and hooked at the end, and has under it a lax membrane,
extended to the throat, which makes a bag or sack, capable of holding a
very large quantity. Feeding her young from this bag has so much the
appearance of feeding them with her own blood, that it caused this
fabulous opinion to be propagated, and made the pelican an emblem of
paternal, as the stork had been before chosen, more justly, of filial
affection. The voice of this bird is harsh and dissonant, which some say
resembles that of a man grievously complaining. David compares his
groaning to it, Psalm cii, 7.