3^6 BIRDS. AN SERES. 43. Rynchops. 
Fufcata, Body blackifli without foots ; legs red; bill brown, it, 
Dufi 
Inhabits St. Domingo ; 1 1 inches long. ^,,1 
JiiU tipt with black ; head, chin, upper part of the *j;. 
rump black -brown ; lower wing-covens hoary ; the 2 
feathers next tlie body and 2 middle tail-feathers ruf'"** 
the tips ; legs red. 
*?ijkpts. Black; back cinereous; belly white ; legs reddilh. 
Inhabits Europe and America j 10 inches long. 
Bill black ; male witJt a white fpot on the cljin ; wii’S^ gji 
tail cinereous; vent and lower tail-coverts white > 
brownifh giccu with purplifii Ipots. 
43. RYNCHOPS. Bill flraight, the 
mandible much fhorter, lower 
cate at the tip. 
N-.gra. 
Blackifh,' beneath white ; bill red at the bafe. 
Black Skl>’"‘‘ 
Tawny; bill black. 
Inhabits America and Afa ; 20 inches long ; is 
Hying about and fkinnning over water, out of " 
fcoops linall fifli with its lower inandiblfi-j iir ftonn)' ^ 
frequents fliores in fcardi of fliell-fiih. 
Bill black, the lower mandible grooved ; front and chu f ui 
wings with a tranfverli; white band ; 2 middle 
black, the next edged with yhite ; legs red. 
