18 C 2 WHITE-BELLIED DARTEK. 



the latter: the scapulars streaked longitudinally with 

 white, giving the bird an elegant appearance : across 

 the lower part of the breast a dull rufous bar ; from 

 thence all beneath is black, of which colour are also 

 the quills and tail ; the last is eleven inches in length, 

 a little rounded in shape, and the ends of the feathers 

 rusty pale brown ; the two middle feathers undulated 

 cross-ways in a singular manner : the legs are clumsy, 

 stout, and only four inches and a half in length; the 

 colour dirty yellowish-brown." Native place un- 

 known. 



A variety from Cayenne is figured by Buffon ; of 

 the length of the former : beak pale yellow : round 

 the eye and throat pale dusky white : the wing-coverts 

 yellowish-white: the rest of the plumage black, except 

 the feathers on the upper part of the back, and some 

 of the scapulars, which are streaked down the middle 

 with white ; and the tip of the tail dirty rufous : legs 

 brownish-yellow. 



WHITE-BELLIED DARTER. 



• (Plotus Anbinga.) 



Pl. abdamine albo. 



Darter with the abdomen white. 



Plotus Anbinga. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 218. Gmel. Syst.Nat. 1. 



580. Lath, hid Orn. 2. 895. 

 Anbinga. Briss. Orn. 6. 476'. Rail Syn. 124. Bnff. Hist. 



Nat. Oi<. 8. 448. 

 White-bellied Darter. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 622. Lath. Gen. 



Hist. x. 419. 



