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Gexos Clo (AIR ERS 
Plotus anhinga, Ind, Orz. ii. p. 895. 1- 
Colymbus colubrinus, Snake Bird, Bartr. Trav.. 130. 243. 
White-bellied Darter, Gen. Syz. vi. p. 622, 1, 
[R. Abbot, of Georgia, feems to think that this bird ftays through- 
out the year in his neighbourhood, having feen it at times 
the whole of the winter. : 
Mr. Bartram, after defcribing the bird, adds, that they have a way 
of fpreading out the tail like an unfurled fan: they delight to fit in 
little peaceable communities, on the dry limbs of trees, hanging over 
the ftill waters, with the wings and tail expanded, and when approach- 
ed, they drop off the limb into the water as if dead, and for a minute 
or two are not feen, when on a fudden, at a yaft diftance, their lone 
flender heads and necks only appear, and have much the appearance 
of Suakes, as no other part of them is to be feen when fwimming in 
the water, except fometimes the tip of their tail; in the heat of the 
day, they are feen in great numbers, failing very high in the air, over 
lakes and rivers, 
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