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THE ANHINGA. 
themselves to flight. In the course of a season, 
those who are successful will catch, of old and young 
ones, about four hundred brace.” 
As we shall have occasion to speak of the Gannet 
again, in giving a general account of the modes of 
catching the various sea-birds that are found upon 
our shores, we shall, for the present, take our leave 
of it, as well as of the two last divisions of this 
Table, the Phaetons (see vol. i., p. 95,) or Tropic- 
Birds, and Anhingas, or Darters, both comparatively 
ANHINGA, OR DARTER. 
little known, and inhabitants of remote regions: the 
former, from its name, being found almost invariably 
within the tropics, and generally at great distances 
