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parts of the body and wings, dufky black : acrofs the wings a 

 bar of white : the tail is much fhorter than the wings, and 

 forked in fhape ; the two middle feathers are black; the next 

 on each fide the fame, margined outwardly with white; the four 

 outer ones white, dafhed with dufky down the fhafts, leaft fo on 

 the outer feathers : legs weak and red : claws black. 

 The male and female both alike. 



Some birds are brown inftead of black, and the white beneath 

 lefs pure. 

 Place and This bird inhabits America, from New Tork to Guiana, 



Cayenne, and Surinam ; and, according to Ray, the Eafi Indies 

 alfo. It is commonly on the wing, and fkims the furface of the 

 water, continually dipping in its bill, to take up fmall jfifh, on 

 which it principally feeds. In ftormy weather feeks the ihores, 

 and lives on oyfters and other Jhell-fijh, which the fhape of the 

 bill enables it to open. It is called at Madras, Coddel Cauka, or 

 Summoodra Cauky ; at Guiana, Taya-taya ; and at New Tork, 

 Skippog *. By fome thefe birds are called Razor-bills. 



Rynchops fulva, Lin. Syft. i. p. 229. 2. 

 Var. A: Le Beoen-cifeaux fauve, Brif, Orn. vi. p. 227. A» 



Description. HPHIS differs from the laft, in having thofe parts of a fulvous 

 colour which in that are of a black brown ; but in other 

 things it entirely agrees. 

 Place. Inhabits Guiana, 



• Dr. Blagden, 



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