BIR'ETS. ANSERES. 38. PIouh. 351 
Tail wedged ; body whitifli ; primary quill-feathers tipt 
with blackilh ; face red. Booby, 
Inhabits South America and neighbouring ihes ; ai feet long. 
■Bill greV) brownifh at the bafe ; irids pale afli ; c/nit baldj 
yeliovs'iih ; body beneath white ; tall brownifh at the tip ; 
legs yellowUh. 
Tail wedged ; body brownifh ; all the quill-feathers 
blackifh ; face red. Brown Booby. 
Inhabits America and Africa ; above 2 feet long; 
Bill and legs red; body beneath paler ; tump whltifh ; tail- 
Jeatheri 14, a middle ones cinereous, the reft brown tipt 
with grey. 
Tail rounded ; body brown, beneath whitifh fpotted with 
brown ; throat white. FiJiAng Corvorant. ^ 
Inhabits China, and is there tamed for the purpolc of catching 
fHh. Staunton’s China. 
Bill yellow ; irids blue. 
Black, beneath white ; face downy. LrJJ'er Booby. 
Inhabits Cayenne ; 18 inches long. 
38. PLOTUS. Bill ftraight, pointed, tooth- 
ed ; noflrils a hit near the bale ; face 
and chin naked ; legs lliort, all the toes 
connected. Darter. 
Thefe have a fmall head, and long, flender neck, and are chielly 
lecn in fouthern climates ; they live chielly on filh, which 
they take by darting forwards the head while the neck is con- 
tratfed like the body of a ferpart. 
Head finooth ; belly white.- PBloitc-hellied D. 
Inhabits Brajil ; 2 feet 10 inches long ; builds on trees, and is 
hardly ever fecn on the ground ; when at reft; fits with the . 
neck drawn in between the fhouldcrs • flclh oily and rancia- 
Bill cinereous, yellowifh at the bale ; irids golden; head, neck 
and breajl reddifli-grey ; body above black, the fcapular fea- 
thers wdth a white fpot in the middle; tail-feathers iz, 
broad, long ; legs yellowllh-afli. 
<e,_”W-IIead fmooth ; belly black. 
Bhch-bellied D. 
Inhabits 
