Indian Darter

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“The Indian Darter (Plotus melangaster) or snake-bird of tropical and subtropical America, ranging northwards to West Mexico and South Carolina, is glossy greenish-black with beautiful silvery-grey marking on the scapulars and wing coverts, a broad brown tip to the tail, which becomes white terminally, and long whitish hair-like feathers on the sides of the occiput and neck merging into a black mane on the nape.” A. H. Evans, 1900

Keywords

bird, water bird, darter, snake bird, fowl, snakebird, water fowl, Aching, Plotus melangaster, Indian Darter, Oriental Darter

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Birds: D-E

Source

Evans, A. H. Birds (New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1900)

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