CANCROMA VULGARIS. 
‘TAB. CXI. 
C. cinerascens, crist4 verticeque pernigris, dorso ventreque . 
subferrugineis, gul4 pectoreque sordidé albidis, pedibus 
mandibulaque superiore nigris ; inferiore testacea. 
Cochlearius. Brisson 5, 506, 1. 
Cancroma_ coehlearia. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, 233. 
| Np Lath. Ind. Orn. 671. 
Habitat 3 in Am rica Australi. 
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COMMON BOATBILL. 
Ash-coloured, crest and crown very black, back and belly 
subferruginous, throat and breast dirty white, legs and 
upper mandible black, under mandible testaceous. 
Inhabits Southern America; feeds on fishes, vermes, 
and crustacea, in quest of which it is continually traversing 
the borders of the sea. 
