. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 166 TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS - STEOANOPODES. the Phalacroc<yrax pentpirilldtun does not occur on the ixlimds at present. The nntives, however, remenilHir very well the time when it wiw |(ientil'ul on the rockn, eHpeciully on the ontlyin},' islet, Are-Kanieii. About thirty years ago, they say, the lust ones were seen ; and the reason Ihey give why this binl has Ixiconie exterminated here on the islanil is, that it was killed in great numbers lor fo(j<l. They unaniniimsly asseri that it has not bee
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. 166 TOTIPALMATE SWIMMERS - STEOANOPODES. the Phalacroc<yrax pentpirilldtun does not occur on the ixlimds at present. The nntives, however, remenilHir very well the time when it wiw |(ientil'ul on the rockn, eHpeciully on the ontlyin},' islet, Are-Kanieii. About thirty years ago, they say, the lust ones were seen ; and the reason Ihey give why this binl has Ixiconie exterminated here on the islanil is, that it was killed in great numbers lor fo(j<l. They unaniniimsly asseri that it has not been seen since; and they only Luighed whin I offered It very high reward lor a ; We know of only three examples ol" this bird in museums — one in St. Petersburg, one in the British Museum, and one in Leyden. Family PLOTID^. — The Anhinoas. Chak. Bill slender, pointed, , and very Heron-like in shape, the cuhneti and comniissiire almost straight, the gonys slightly ascending; terminal half of the toinia finely serrated, the serrations directed backward, and formin;,' a series of close-set, sharp-pointed, fine bristly teeth; nostrils obliterated. Head small, neck slender and greatly elongated (nearly as long as the wing); outer toe about as long as the middle, or slightly shorter. Tail very long, fan-shaped, rounded, the feathers widened toward the ends, the outer webs of the intermedia; in fully adult birds transversely corrugated or " ; Tliis singular family consists of but one gonus, Plotus, which has a representative in the warmer parts of each of the great divisions of the earth. Genus PLOTUS, Linn^us. Plotus, Linn. S. N. I. 1766, 21" (type, P. anhinga, Linn.). Char. The same as those of the family (see above). Only one species of this genus occurs in America. This is represented in Africa by the P. Levailliintii, Light. ; in India by P. iiulanogaskr, Gmel. ; and in Australia by P. nov(e-hollandi(r, QouLD. They all closel
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