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and wide tail, of. twelve {preading feathers. 
It fwims very ‘well, fometimes with the head 
only out of water, and on the leaft appearance of — 
danger, dives entirely under, | 
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Tae TROPIC BIRD. 
The beak is comprefled, ftraight, or flightly tupal. and 
v4 Sharp at. the point. The gape reaches neues the bill, 
which is red, and jagged. 
~ Lhe noftrils are oblong. 
The hind toe turned towards the toe before. 
HE Tropic Bird is one of the Phaeton 
‘kind. It is called the Tropic Bird, becaufe 
it is generally found in thofe climates which lie 
between the tropics, (that is, which are the hotteft. ) 

by one web, and it can reft upon the water with 
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Its feet are palmated, that is, the toes are all joined 
them ; in this it is like the Cormorant and the 
Booby, and like them it can rooft upon trees. 
It is about the fize of a Pigeon, but it is very 
_ remarkable for two long feathers in its tail, near 
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