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WHITE-BELLIED DARTER. 



the latter: the scapulars streaked longitudinally with 

 white, giving the bird an elegant appearance : across 

 the lower part of the breast a dull rufous bar ; from 

 thence all beneath is black, of which colour are also 

 the quills and tail ; the last is eleven inches in length, 

 a little rounded in shape, and the ends of the feathers 

 rusty pale brown ; the two middle feathers undulated 

 cross-ways in a singular manner : the legs are clumsy, 

 stout, and only four inches and a half in length ; the 

 colour dirty yellowish-brown." Native place un- 

 known. 



A variety from Cayenne is figured by BufFon ; of 

 the length of the former : beak pale yellow : round 

 the eye and throat pale dusky white : the wing-coverts 

 yellowish-white : the rest of the plumage black, except 

 the feathers on the upper part of the back, and some 

 of the scapulars, which are streaked down the middle 

 with white ; and the tip of the tail dirty rufous : legs 

 brownish-yellow. 



white-Bellied darter. 



(Plotus Anbinga.) 



Pl. abdomine albo. 

 Darter with the abdomen white. 

 Plotus Anbinga. Linn. Syst. Nat, 1. 218. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 



580. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 895. 

 Anbinga. ^ Briss. Orn. 6. 476. Raii Syn. 124. Buff. Hist 



Nat. Ois. 8. 448. 

 White-bellied Darter. Lath. Gen. Syn, 6. 622. Lath. Gen 



Hist. X. 449. 



