. The birds of South Africa. Birds. PHALACROCOEACIDJD PLOTUS 13 568. Plotus rufus. Snake Bird. Plotus rufus, Lacep. et Daiid. in Buff. Hist. Nat. (18° Didot ed.) Ois. xvii, p. 81 (1802) ; Grant, Cat. B. M. xxvi, p. 412 (1898) ; Dates, Cat. B. Eggs, ii, p. 207 (1902). Plotus congensis, Cranch in Tuckeifs Exped. Hiv. Zaire App. 4, p. 408 (1818) ; Laijard, B. S. Afr. p. 378 (1867) ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 214. Plotus levaillanti, Lichf. p. 87 (1823) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 251, 1863, p. 382; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 338; Gurneij in Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 367 (1872); Buckley, Ibix, 1
. The birds of South Africa. Birds. PHALACROCOEACIDJD PLOTUS 13 568. Plotus rufus. Snake Bird. Plotus rufus, Lacep. et Daiid. in Buff. Hist. Nat. (18° Didot ed.) Ois. xvii, p. 81 (1802) ; Grant, Cat. B. M. xxvi, p. 412 (1898) ; Dates, Cat. B. Eggs, ii, p. 207 (1902). Plotus congensis, Cranch in Tuckeifs Exped. Hiv. Zaire App. 4, p. 408 (1818) ; Laijard, B. S. Afr. p. 378 (1867) ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 214. Plotus levaillanti, Lichf. p. 87 (1823) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 251, 1863, p. 382; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 338; Gurneij in Andersson's B. Damaral. p. 367 (1872); Buckley, Ibix, 1874, p. 391; Gates, Matabeleland, p. 328 (1881); Oakley, Trans. S. A. Phil. Soc. ii, p. 85 (1881); Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 368 [Quaequae Biver]; Holub cj- Pel- zeln, Orn. Siid-Afr. p. 333, 2 plates of skeleton; Butler, Feilden and Pu'id, Zool. 1882, p. 429; Sharpe, cd. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 782 (1884); Tristram, Ibis, 1886, p. 41, pi. iii; Symonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 336 ; Fleck, Journ. Ornith. 1894, pp. 365, 379 ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 161 (1896); Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 204 (1899); Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 268. Plotus capensis, Layard, Ibis, 1869, p. 77. Anhinga rufa, Reiclienow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 95 (1900). " Auhinga," " Darter " and " Sweet-water Duiker " of some Pig. 4.—Head of PZotos n«/jts. x } Description. Adult male.—Crown, back of the neck and upper back dark brown, very finely mottled with dark rufous and black ; the back with a few white centres to the feathers ; lower back, tail and wings black ; scapulars, lesser and median wing-coverts elongate and lanceolate in shape, with a median white stripe ; greater coverts bronzy-brown on the outer web, some of the inner secondaries also with a median stripe of the same colour; below the throat and neck rufous; a very narrow band of feathers bordering the throat, fore- head and naked skin round the eye and continued for about four inches along the side of the neck white ; above
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