( 80 ) 
Palmipedes. 
a. Noddies. 
A slight projection 
under the beak. 
b. Terns. 
5 . R. H VNcii OPS, Lin. Cut- 
waters. Sktmmers. 
The inferior mandible 
of the beak much long- 
er than the other, and 
both flattened in simple 
plates. Fig. 243. R. Ni- 
gra. 
Tail, not forked, almost 
as long as the wings. 
Tail forked. 
Wings long ; tail 
forked. 
Feet small. Subsist 
on what they snatch 
from the surface of the 
water with their lower 
mandible during their 
flight. 
FAMILT 111. TOTIPALMES. 
GENERA AND SUB-GENERA. 
1. Pelecanus, Lin. 
Skin of the throat A space, at the base 
more or less dilatable- of the beak, bare of 
Tongue very small. feathers; nostrils like 
cracks, with the open- 
ings scarcely evident. 
a. Onocrotalus, Briss. 
Pelecanus, Illig. Pe- 
licans. 
Beak extremely long, The inferior mandible Circle of the eyes mar- 
straight, broad, and flat- sustaining a naked mem- ked like the throat ; tail 
tened horizontally, ter- brane, dilatable into a round, 
minated by a crook. Fig. large bag ; 2 furrows, the 
246. length of the beak, hid- 
ing the nostrils. 
^. pHALACROGORAX,5r/5^. 
Carbo, Alejer. Ha- 
LIEUS, Ill-ig- CORVO- 
RANTS. 
Beak elongated, com- Tongue very small, Gorvorants.INaiiofthe 
pressed, the end of the skin of the throat less di- second toe notched like 
upper mandible crook'd, latable, the nostrils like a saw. 
that of the lov/er trun- a fine line imperceptibly 
cated. Fig. 245. pierced. 
