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from New-York to the Bahama IJlands *, as well as Cayenne and 

 Surinam f. Dam-pier met with it on the coaft oi New Holland\, 

 and K.-empfer at Japan § ; our late circumnavigators, at Fiz/z D/V- 

 02£#\f Land, Terra del Fuego ||, and iWw Zealand** : but in the 

 laft-named places, as well as in fome others i~f", the plumage is 

 wholly black* 



* Aril. Zool.—Catejb. Car. I. 85. — Park. Voy. p. 144. 



+ Defcrip. Surin. ii. p. 167. % Voy. iii. pi. in 123. — Cook's laft Voy. i. I IQ. 



§ Kcsmp. Jap. i. p. 113. || Forji. Voy. i. p. 453. — Park. Voy. p. 488. 



*• Haiuke/w. Voy. ii. p. 333. — Cook's laji Voy. i. p. 151. — Id. ii. p. 3/3. 

 ft In the iiland of Curaaa.— Feuill. Obf. 1725. p. 289.- 



Genus 



