100 BIRDS. PRESSIROSTRES. Fulica 



Gen. LXII. FULICA. Coot.— Toes bordered by a seal- 

 loped membrane. 



132. F. atra. Common Coot. — Head and neck black ; back 



black, tinged with cinereous ; beneath paler. 



Will. Orn. 239. Sibb. Scot. 20. Linn. Syst. ii. 257. Penn. Brit. Zool. ii, 



494. Temm. Orn. ii. 70G— E, Bald Coot ; W, Sar ddwfr foel In 



fresh-water lakes, common. 



Length 1 8, breadth 28 inches ; weight 24 to 30 ounces. Bill flesh-co- 

 loured. Irides red. Legs greenish, the garter yellow. Tail of 12 feathers. 

 Female with the frontal plate less — Nest of flags, on the margins of lakes. 

 Eggs 6 to 14, white, tinged and spotted with brown. Young with the frontal 

 plate small, and the plumage beneath tinged with brown — This species, 

 though well fitted for swimming, is, according to the observations of Mr 

 Youell (Lin. Trans, xiv. 588.), equally qualified to walk steadily, and ascends 

 trees readily. It picks up grain quicker than domestic poultry. 



Gen. LXIII. PHALAROPUS. Phalarope.— Bill slender,, 

 depressed and dilated at the extremity. 



133. P. lobatus. Grey Phalarope. — Plumage, above, black- 

 ish-brown, the feathers bordered with orange-red ; beneath 

 brick-red. 



Grey coot-footed Tringa, Edwards, Phil. Trans, iv. 255 — Tringa lobata,. 



Linn. Syst. i. 249 Grey Phal. Penn. Brit. Zool. ii. 491 Phal. pla- 



tyrhinchus, Temm. Orn. ii. 712 A rare winter visitant. 



Length 7t?» breadth 1C T 2 3 inches; weight 1| ounce. Bill brown, yellow- 

 ish towards trie base ; feet greenish-grey ; irides reddish-yellow. A yellow 

 band above the eyes. Wing-covers black, with white tips. A white band 

 across the wings. Rump white, with black spots. Female larger, the front, 



nape and ci'own sooty black, the eye-band pure white Nest unknown. 



Young with a black horse-shoe mark on the nape ; the plumage, above, cine- 

 reous-brown with yellow margins ; beneath white. In winter, the old birds 

 resemble in plumage the young — This bird seems to breed in the Arctic Re- 

 gions. Captain Sabine states, that a flock of them was seen swimming among 

 icebergs on the 10th June, on the west coast of Greenland, in Lat. t»8°, — Linn. 

 Trans, xii. 53(1. ; and he afterwards states, that they are abundant during the 

 summer months on the North Georgian Islands, — Parry's 1st Voyage, App. cci. 



Gen. LXIV. LOBIPES. Cootfoot.— Bill slender, straight, 

 depressed at the base, subulate at the tip. 



134. L. Tiyperboreus. Red Coot-foot. — Crown, nape, over 

 the eye and sides of the breast deep ash-grey ; sides and front 

 of the neck reddish-brown. 



Larus fidipes, Will. Orn. 270 — Tringa hyp. Linn. Syst. i. 249.— Red 

 Phalarope, Penn. Brit. Zool. ii. 492.— Phalaropus Williamsi, Sim- 



monds, Lin. Trans, viii. 264 Phalaropus hyp. Sowerby, Brit. Mis. 



Tab. x. Temm. Orn. ii. 709 — Breeds in Orkney. 

 Length 8, breadth 14 inches. Bill black, slightly deflected at the extre- 

 mity. Feet greenish-grey. Irides brown. Plumage, above, black, bordered 



