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The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
It ufes more the low Sandy inland Parts, than the Plovers, 
Snipes, cre. 
XIV. Gallinago minima ex fufco & albovaris, Tab. 265. Fig.4. Raij. 
fy™ p. 190. Us Cinclus prior, Aldrovand. Schoeniclos. fea Funto Bellon, 
the Stint. Ratj. fym. p. 110. : 
The leat Snipe. 
This is about five or fix Inches from the Bills end to the end of the 
Tail, twelve from one Wings end to the other extended, the Head is 
big in proportion to the Body, the Eye round, large, and black, the Bill 
Paci more than an Inch long, of a light brown Colour, and having 
Jong and large Slits for its Noftrils, the Neck is an Inch and an half 
long, and the Tail of the fame Length.. The Colour of the Head and 
upper part of the Neck is brown, the Chaps, under part of the Neck, 
Breaft and‘Belly, is whitifh, and the Wing and Tail Feathers are for 
the moft partr-brown, with fome white Streaks intermix’d, the Legs are 
an Inch and an half:long, :cover’d with very {mall thin yellow Scales, the 
Toes are four, one behind which is very fmall, the middlemoft of the 
three before is three quarters of an Inch long, with very fmall black 
Claws, the two outward Toes of this Bird havea little Webb joining 
them. 
Its Feeding, Stomach and Inwards are the fame with the Plover. 
They frequent the fandy Places of the River. boo 
The half Web tothe Toes, Magnitude, crc. diftinguifh it fufficient+ 
ly from others of this Kind. ? 
XV. Gallinula chloropus major Aldrovand. Willtighb, Pp. 313. Rai. 
Gn. Px 113. @ 190. : 
The Coot. bh Stash og 
It is about fourteen Inches long from the end of its Bill'to the end of its 
Tail, about twenty from the one end of an extended Wing to the end of 
the other, the Head is {mall in proportion to its Body, on the upper Part of 
the Head, and even the Bill almoft to the end, is an Excreffence cover’d 
with a very fine Scarlet colour’d fhining, bald, fmooth Membrane, the 
which runs an Inch above the Bill, and has there two Corners, the 
Bill is an Inch long, yellow at the Point and roundifh, the Eyes are 
round, the Neck is three Inches and an half long, the ‘Tail about two 
and an half, having three or four white Feathers of each fide of it, all 
the reft of the Bird is dark brown, except the Wings Tips, which are 
white, and fome few white Streaks on the Belly, the Legs and Feet are 
fix Inches long, cover’d with Scales of a yellow Colour, and near the 
Thigh of a Scarlet. They have four Toes, one behind and three before, 
the middlemoft of which is three Inches long, and has but three Joints, 
the outwardmoft has feur Joints, and the innermoft two, that behind one, 
and all of them pretty large ftreight Claws, anda ftreight little narrow 
lateral Webbs, or Membranes, diltinguifh’d by a finall Lineall along the 
Toes to help it to fwim withal. 
The Trachea Arteria of this Bird was branch’d into two, juft under the 
Bafe of the Heart, and was comprefs’d as that of the Ardes caerulea nigra, 
the Stomach, or Gizard was large, and like a Hens, it contain’d feveral 
remainders of I guefs fmall Shrimps and Beetles, mix’d with a great 
deal 
