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SURINAM FINFOOT. 



white stripe reaches from the beak, passing over the 

 eye, and down the sides of the throat and neck ; the 

 fore part of which, and the under parts of the body, 

 are white : the tail is wedge-shaped ; its feathers rigid, 

 straight, with the base orange. 



This species inhabits Senegal, and is said to be as 

 large as the Darter ; which genus it resembles in the 

 structure of its head, neck, and tail ; the Grebes by 

 its beak, and the Coots by its feet ; which have their 

 anterior toes bordered with distinct lobes ; the ex- 

 terior ones being united only at their base, and the 

 outer ones divided : the posterior toe is not lobated. 

 It appears to vary in the colour of its plumage. 



SURINAM FINFOOT. 



(Podoa Surinamensis.) 



Po. corpore supra Jusco subtus albo, vertice collogue^ posteriore 

 nigris, gula jugulo et fascia oculari albis, lateribus colli albo 

 nigroque lineatis. 



Finfoot with the body above brown, beneath white, with the 

 crown and neck behind black, the throat, jugulum, and fascia 

 near the eye white, the sides of the neck striped with black 

 and white. 



Plotus Surinamensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 581. Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 2. 896. 



Le Grebe-foulque. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8, p. 248. Buff. PL 

 Enl. 893. 



Surinam Darter. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 626. 

 American Finfoot. Lath, Gen. Hist. x. 11. 



