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The pelican is an occasional visitor to the coast of Italy. This bird had been shot in marshes near Rome and brought to Cassiano in 1635. He commissioned a study of the whole pelican, together with a life-size detail of the head. Cassiano then had the bird dissected. On measuring the capacity of the pouch, Cassiano found that it could contain ‘fourteen pounds of water easily’.
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