DARTER. 449 



GENUS CXI.— DARTER 



1 White-bellied Darter 



2 Black-bellied 



A Var. II 4 Rufous-winged 



3 New-Holland || 5 Black 



JjILL long, straight, sharp-pointed. 

 Nostrils a long slit near the base. 

 Face and chin bare of feathers. 

 Neck of a very great length. 

 Legs short, toes four in number, all webbed together. 



1— WHITE-BELLIED DARTER. 



Plotus Anbinga, hid. Orn. ii. 895. Lin.'i. 218. Gm. Lin. i. 580. Boro wsk. iii. 25. 



t. 35. Tern. Man. Anal. cxi. 

 Colymbus colubrinus, eauda elongata, Bartr. Trav. 130. 293. 

 Anhinga, Bris. vi. 476. Id. 8vo. ii. 485. Rail, 124. 7. Will. 250. Id. Engl. 332. 



pi. 72. Klein, 145. 8. Buf. viii. 448. Schmid, Fog. p. 158. t. 135. 

 Le Zaramagullon tachete, Voy. d 'Azara, iv. No. 424. 

 White-bellied Darter, Gen. Syn. vi. 622. Id. Sup. ii. 367. 



THIS is about the size of a Mallard in the body; the length 

 from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail two feet ten inches ; 

 extent of wings, three feet or more ; the bill three inches long, 

 straight, jagged on the edges, colour greyish, with a yellowish base ; 

 irides gold-colour ; head very small, the neck slender, of a great 

 length, and covered with downy, soft, rufous grey feathers; but the 

 throat and fore part of the neck, the upper part of the back and 

 scapulars, are dusky black, the middle of the feathers dashed with 

 white ; lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts, fine 

 black ; all the under parts from the breast are pure silvery white ; 

 the lesser and middle wing coverts like the upper parts of the back ; 

 the larger, nearest the body, black spotted with white ; but the outer 

 ones are plain black ; the tail consists of twelve very broad feathers, 



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