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miflake is fo much the eafier, as all Its tortuous 
motions lingularly favour the illufion. 
In whatever fituation the anhinga may be 
feen, whether perched on a tree, fwin>ming in 
the water, or flying in the air, the mqft appa- 
rent and remarkable part of its body is fure to 
be its long and flender neck, which is con-» 
tinually agitated by an ofcillatory motion, un- 
lefs in its flight, when it becomes immoveable 
and extended, and forms with its tail a perfedly 
ftraight and horizontal line. 
The true place which nature feems to have 
aflfigned to the anhingas, in the numerous clafs 
of the palmipedes, is exadly between the cor- 
morant and the grebe They partake indeed 
equally of both thefe genera of birds, having 
the ftraight flender bill and the long neck of 
the latter ; while they approach the former by 
the conformity of their feet, the four toes of 
which are joined by a fmgle membrane. They 
partake alfo of the cormorant by their flight ; 
^ This bird is called by Willughby, the Greater [Loon, 
or Arfefoot *, by Edwards, the Greater Dobchick •, and by 
Brifon, Colymbus and Grebe, of which he enumerates 
eleven diftin6l fpecies. iSee his Ornithologie, vol. vi. 
having 
