624 D A R T E R. 



2. Anhinga de Cayenne, PL Enl. 959. 



SLACK-BELLIED Anhinga melanogafter, Zool. Ind. p. 22. pi. 12. 



Black-bellied Anhinga, Ind. Zool. p. 13. pi. 12. 



Description. QIZE of the common Duck; but the neck is extremely long: 

 the bill ftraight, long, and fharp-pointed ; the upper part of 

 a pale blue, the lower reddifh : eyes very piercing : the head, 

 neck, and upper part of the breaft, are of a light brown : each 

 fide of the head, and upper part of the neck, marked with a 

 broad white line : crop very large : back, icapulars, and wing 

 coverts, marked lengthwife, in equal portions, with ftripes of 

 black and white: quill feathers, belly, thighs, and tail, deep 

 black : tail remarkably long and flender : legs and feet of a pale 

 green : the four toes united by webs, after the manner of the 

 Corvorant. 

 Place and This is the defcription of the Indian Zoology; which obferves, 



that it is found in the iflands of Ceylon and Java, and fits on the 

 fhrubs that hang over the water; and, in a country where every 

 one's ideas are filled with ferpents, often terrifies the pafTen- 

 gers by mooting out its long (lender neck, which, in their firft 

 furprife, they take for the darting of fome fatal reptile. 



Manners. 



s. Anhinga, Buf. Oif. 8. pi. 35. 



Var. A. Br. Muf. 



Pl. CVI. 



Description. QIZE of the laft : length three feet three inches and a half. 



Bill four inches and a half; colour dufky yellow, covered at 



the bafe with a fkin of the fame colour, which occupies the 



fpace 



