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vii. p. 61 (1882) [Western Kansas] ; Nehrl. BuU. Nutt. Orn. C. vii. 

 p. 225 (1882) ; Bailej/, BuU. Nutt. Orn. C. viii. p. 42 (1883) 

 [Georgia] ; Baird, Brew. ^ Ridgiv. Water-B. N. Amer. ii. p. 166 

 (1884) ; Coues, Key N. Am. B. p. 730 (1884) ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, 

 iii. p. 434 (1886) ; Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1887, pp. 28, 123 [Pilco- 

 mayo], 1889, p. 100 [Tonantins, Prov. Solimoes] ; Salvin, Ibis, 

 1889, p. 376 [Cozumel I.] : Koniffstvald, J. f. O. 1896, p. 387 

 [Sao Paulo] ; Goeldi, Ibis, 1897, pp. 157, 162 [Soutli Guyana]. 



L'Anhinga de Cayenne, D'Auhent. PL Enl. ix. pi. 90 [no. 959]. 



L'Anhinga noir de Cayenne, B'Aubent. PI. Enl. ix. pi. 91 [no. 960]. 



L'Anhinga, Briff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 448, pi. xxv. (1781). 



White-bellied Darter, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. ii. p. 622 (1785) 

 [juv.] ; id. Gen. Hist. B. x. p. 449 (1824). 



Blaek-bellied Darter, var. A, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. ii. p. 624, pi. cvi. 

 (1785) [$ ad.] ; id. Gen. Hist. B. x. p. 452, pi. clxxxiv. (1824). 



Black-bellied Darter, var. B, Black Darter, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. 

 pt. ii. p. 625(1785) [S ad.]. 



Plotus tupinanibis, Bonnai. Tabl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 40 (1790). 



Plotus nielanogaster, Wilson {nee Gmel.), Amer. Orn. ix. p. 79, 

 pi. 74. figs. 1, 2 (1814) ; Vieill. Gal. Ois. p. 196, pi. 278 (1825) ; 

 Lesson, Traite d''Orn p. 599 (1831); Steph. in Shale's Gen. Zool. 

 xiii. pt. i. p. 131 (1826). 



Plotus leucogaster, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. i. p. 545 (1816) 

 [Florida]. 



Black Darter, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. x. p. 454 (1824). 



Black-bellied Darter, Steph. in Shale's Gen. Zuol. xiii. pt. i. pi. 15 

 (1826). 



Anhiuga anhinga, Ridyw. Man. N. A. B. p. 77 (1887) ; Lloyd, Auk, 

 iv. p. 184 (1887) [W. Texas] ; Cory, Auk, v. p. 71 (1888) [Cuba] ; 

 Chapvian, Auk, v. p. 268 (1888) [Gainesville, Floiida]'; Scott, 

 Auk, v. p. 377 (1888) [Tarpon Springs, Florida: breeding March 

 to .lulyl; Pindar, Auk, vi. p. 312 (1889) [P\ilton Co., Kentucky]; 

 Goss, Tr. Kansas Acad. Sci. xi. pp. 68-59 (1889) [Kansas: 

 habits] ; Cory, B. W. Ind. p. 272 (1889) ; Breimt. 8f Chapm. Auk, 

 viii. p. 137 (1891) [Suwanee R.] ; Bri/anf, Zoe, ii. p. 49 (1891) 

 [habits : Tepic & Mazatlan R., Mexico] ; Svott, Auk, ix. p. 21 1 (1892) 

 [Caloosahatchie Reg., Florida] ; Attivnter, Auk, ix. p. 231 (1892) 

 [San Antonio, Texas]; Cory, Cat. W. Ind. B. p. 84 (1892); 

 Wayne, Auk, xii. p. 364 (1895) [Ancilla R., Florida: breeding]; 

 A. b. U. Check-l. p. 41 (1895). 



Adult male in hreeding-plumarje. Head, neck, middle of upper 

 back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and underparts black, glossed with 

 oil-green ; the feathers down the upper half of the back of the neck 

 considerably elongate and forming a mane ; down each side of the 

 mane and along the middle of the head are lines of loosely-webbed 

 brownish-white feathers, these are apparently retained only for a 

 very short period ; the sides of the upper back, wing-coverts, 

 scapulars, and innermost secondaries black with white middles ; 

 the scapulars are falciform and but moderately elongate, the longest 

 measuring less than 5 inches ; greater secondary coverts mostly 

 silvery white, only the inner half of the inner web being black ; 

 the outer webs of the innermost secondaries slightly, and of the 

 middle tail-feathers strongly ribbed ; rest of the quills black ; 

 tail-feathers black, shading into dark brown on the subterminal 

 part and rather widely tipped with brownish white. This 



