592 CLASS AVES. 



Halicus Lucidus^ Licht. 



Grey-brown, shining ; beneath, white ; sides and 

 thighs, brown ; tail-feathers, fourteen. Length, 30 

 inches ; tail, 6 inches. Cape of Good Hope. Mus. 

 Berlin. 



Carbo. Desmarestia, Payradain, 

 Diet. Sci. Nat. x. t. 302. 



Blackish-green ; not crested ; feet and bill, yellow ; 

 tail-feathers, fourteen. Female, above, greenish and 

 white ; beneath, white. 



Carbo Javanicus, Horsf. 

 Java. Length. 16 inches. Mus. India House. 



Pelicanus Goemardi, Garnot. 

 Voy. Coq. 109. t. 48. 



Ash ; sides of neck, white ; face, naked, carunculated, 

 like the feet, red ; wings, behind, and tail, browTi ; 

 back and front of wings, white, spotted. Callao Bay. 



The Frigate Birds.* 



Differ from the cormorants in having a forked tail, 

 and short feet, the membranes of which are deeply 

 emarginated, and by an excessive extent of wings, 

 and a bill in which both mandibles are bent at the 

 end. 



Their wings are so powerful that they fly to im- 

 mense distances, every where, but principally be- 



' M. Vieillot calls them Tachypetes. 



