ORDER PALMIPEDES. 551 



but their tail is more developed than in either of 

 these, and their claws are sharper. 



American Finfoot^ Lath. H. Plotus Surinamensis, 

 Gm. Enl. 893. 



Above, brown ; beneath, white ; crown, and back of 

 neck, black; throat, and orbital-band, white ; sides 

 of neck, black, and white hned. Surinam, Brown, 

 Illust. t. 39. Length, thirteen inches. Macao a 

 Doigtier. Azara, n. 446. 



African Finfoot, Lath. H. t. 164. Heliornis Sene- 

 galensis, Vieill. Gal. 280. 



Above, brown ; beneath, white ; sides of the neck, 

 and back, black spotted ; tail, rigid, slender. Sene- 

 gal. 



The Divers, properly so called. Mergus,* Briss. 

 CoLYMBUs, Lath. Eudytes,* Iliger. 



Have, with all the forms of the grebes, the feet of 

 common palmipeds ; that is to say, their anterior 

 toes are united to the end by membranes, and are 

 terminated by pointed claws. They are birds of the 

 north, which rarely build in France, but arrive there 

 in winter. Tliey are, however, sometimes seen on 

 the coast. 



* Mergm, Diver, the Latin name of a sea bird, not easily to be deter- 

 mined. Linnaeus, after Gesner, has applied it to the Merganser. Eudytes 

 has the same meaning in Greek. 



