Français : Planche N°95 dessinée par Edouard Traviés provenant du livre "Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation" par Georges Cuvier (Tome 4), seconde édition de 1828, représentant :
-en haut : Phaeton à bec rouge (Phaethon aetherus)
-en bas : Anhinga à ventre noir. (Plotus melanogaster)
Author Rvalette
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuvier-95-Phaeton_%C3%A0_bec_rouge_et_Anhinga.jpg


2. Paille-en-queue à brin blanc. (Phaeton aethereus. Linné) = red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus)
The red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus), also known as the boatswain bird is a tropicbird, one of three closely related seabirds of tropical oceans. The scientific name is derived from Ancient Greek phaethon, "sun" and Latin aetherius, "heavenly". The red-billed tropicbird occurs in the tropical Atlantic, eastern Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Order: Phaethontiformes > Family: Phaethontidae > Genus: Phaethon > Species: Phaethon aethereus


1. Anhinga à ventre noir. (Plotus melanogaster L.) = Oriental darter (Anhinga melanogaster)
The Oriental darter or Indian darter (Anhinga melanogaster) is a water bird of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia. It has a long and slender neck with a straight, pointed bill and, like the cormorant, it hunts for fish while its body submerged is in water. It spears a fish underwater, bringing it above the surface, tossing and juggling it before swallowing the fish head first. The body remains submerged as it swims, and the slender neck alone is visible above the water, which accounts for the colloquial name of snakebird. Like the cormorants, Oriental darters have wettable feathers and they often found perched on a rock or branch with its wings held open to dry.
Order: Suliformes > Family: Anhingidae > Genus: Anhinga > Species: Anhinga melanogaster