TROPICK BIRD. 
good friend Dr. Fothergill ; that it was finely 
preserved; and that, though the Tropick Bird 
had often been described, he believes that he 
has made some amendments. 
BufTbn's description of this bird is very 
short — " The Great Tropick Bird," says he, 
"exceeds the bulk of a large Dove-House Pi- 
geon. It's shafts are nearly two feet long. 
AH it's plumage is white: with little broken 
black lines above the back ; and a black streak, 
in form of a horse-shoe, inclosing the eye at 
the inner corners. The bill, and the feet, are 
red. It is found in the island of Rodrigue, 
in that of Ascension, and at Cayenne; and 
seems the largefr. of the genus. ' It sometimes 
roves immense distances beyond the Tropicks, 
Linnaeus mentions the latitude of forty-seven 
degrees and a half as the limit; and," adds 
Buffon, " I myself saw one nearly in that pa- 
rallel, between the Bank of Newfoundland 
and the Channel. Linnaeus adds, that the 
Tropick Bird feeds on Mackarels, Dolphins, 
and Sharks: I suppose, he means the dead car- 
cases that sometimes float on the surface." 
The Little Tropick Bird of Buffon, is de- 
scribed 
