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white stripe reaches from the beak, passing over the 

 eye, and clown the sides of the throat and neck ; the 

 fore part of which, and the under parts of the body, 

 are white: the tail is wedge-shaped; its feathers rigid, 

 straight, with the base orange. 



This species inhabits Senegal, and is said to be as 

 large as the Darter ; which genus it resembles in the 

 structure of its head, neck, and tail ; the Grebes by 

 its beak, and the Coots by its feet ; which have their 

 anterior toes bordered with distinct lobes ; the ex- 

 terior ones being united only at their base, and the 

 outer ones divided : the posterior toe is not lobated. 

 It appears to vary in the colour of its plumage. 



SURINAM FINFOOT. 



(Podoa Surinamensis.) 



Po. corpore supra J~usco subtus nlbo, vcrficc collogue jwstcriorc 



nigris, gula jugulo et fascia ocular i albis, later ibus colli albo 



nigroque liueatis. 

 Finfoot with the body above brown, beneath white, with the 



crown and neck behind black, the throat, juguluni, and fascia 



near the eye white, the sides of the neck striped with black 



and white. 

 Plotns Surinamensis. Gmcl. Syst. Nat. 1. 581. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. 896. 

 Le Grebe- foulque. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. ;;. 248. Buff. PI 



Enl. 893. 

 Surinam Darter. Lath. Gen. Sun. 6. 626. 

 American Finfoot. Lath. Gen. Hist. x. 1 1 . 



