MAN OF WAR BIRD. 
back. On the breast is a white bed of fea- 
thers, nearly of the shape of a heart; the 
point of which tends to the throat, and the 
two blunter angles of it pass under the wings, 
which have each of them about thirty quills 
or prime feathers in a row. The tail has ten 
feathers ; the two middlemost shorter by half 
than the outer feathers. The le^s, which are 
feathered to the knees, are the shortest, for the 
proportion of the bird, that I have yet met 
%\'ith: they had small stumpy feathers on 
their outer sides, quite to the feet. The four 
toes are ail webbed together; as in the Pelican, 
Soland Goose, Cormorant, Shag, &c. of 
which genus this bird is a species. The toes 
were not webbed to their ends, as is common 
in most water-fowls, but one joint of each of 
the three forward toes was left tree, and at 
liberty, the better to hold it's prey — fishes— 
which are slippery. The legs and feet are of 
a dirty yellowish colour. 
The bird described in this plate, was pre- 
sented to me, well-preserved dry, by my obliging 
friend Isaac Romilly, Esq. F. R. S. They 
are found only in warm countries, and are 
seen [ 
