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ANAS 4. Subfufca, alis nigris, roftro rubmtu The Spanifi-main Duck. 



ANAS 



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. Fufca criflata ad gulam alba,! 



iride flammta s 



tride flammed. 

 Anas crijlata. Cat. t. 97. 



ANAS 6. Subjufca minor, 



The America?! Wood Duck. 



remigibus 



cxtimis cam- ) 



lets, mediis a/bis, maximis fub t uirefccntibus}( The Teal. 

 Fafcid alba in fronte. 



The third and fixth fpecies are natives of Jamaica, and breed wild in many 

 parts of the country, efpecially where it abounds in ponds and lagoons. The firft fort 

 breeds fo eaiily that it is now very common in every part of the ifland, and the mod 

 common dim at every table in the country; but the others do not thrive fo well, nor 

 have they yet come into a breed of the whittling duck, though a native, and a fine 

 fort; and its young are too frequently deftroyed by the amphibious kind, to breed 

 well abroad. I 



AN;£THETUS 1. Major melinus fubtus albidus, 



roftro ferrato-dentato. 



Anferi bafino affinis. Slo. Hift. 



The Booby ; and the Booby 

 of Catejby, t. 87, 



This bird is fomewhat fmaller than the common fea-gull, which it refembles 

 both in its flight and make ; but it is rather of a more oblong form, and varies 

 much in its colour, which moil frequently borders upon the yellowifh. The genus 

 is eafily diftinguifhed by their ftraight pointed bills, with a fmall prominence under- 

 neath, and the web that runs between the three fore toes. It lives, like the fol- 

 lowing, on the productions of the fea, and flies fomething like the Shear-water 

 between the waves ; but it generally reforts to the next rock or unfrequented place 

 in the evening, to pafs the night more at eafe. The bird is common about all the 

 lonely rocky clifts and unfrequented iflands in America. 



ANiETHETUS 2. Minor fufcus, vertice ri- 

 per eo, roftro glabra. 



Anas a?igufiiroJlra, Sec. 



Barr. 



The Noddy ; and the 



of Cat. t. 88. 



oddy 



It lives on the productions of the fea, for which it hunts all the day-time 



This bird is much about the fize of the red-fronted Coote, and of a flate colour 

 bordering upon the brown, except the forehead, which is whitifb. The bill is black, 

 pointed and ttraight, and the three fore toes webbed like thofe of the fore^oin^. 



' k"t at 

 night it retires, like the Booby, to the next firm ftand it obferves, and perche- ibme- 



times upon the mails or yards of a (hip, when any fuch is near, inttead of a tree ; 



nor does it chufe to fly until the approach of day, and will frequently be rather 



laid hold of than quit its ftation, in which it endeavours to maintain itielf 



its threatening but harmlefs bill. Its flight is low and eafy. 





LARUS 1. (a) Minor albidus, vertice ni-\ The fmaller black-caped white 



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Sea-Gull. 







This little bird hardly exceeds the Martin in nze, and is remarkable for its great 

 agility. It is frequent about the north-eaft coaft of Jamaica, where the influx of 

 fo many rivers occafion an extraordinary refort of all forts of fifh. 



(a) N. B. This genus may be very properly divided into, r. Thofe that have tubular noftrils ; and, 

 2. Thofe that have only nafal apertures in the mandibles; as Mr. Edwards has done. 



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