494 



COOT. Class II. 



XXXVII. Short thick BILL, with a callus extending up the 

 COOT - forehead. 



NOSTRILS narrow and pervious. 



TOES furnifhed with broad fcalloped membranes. 



220. Com- £a Poulle d'eau. Belon a-v. Rchr-hennl, Blasfl. Kram. 



MON. l8l . 357 . 



Fulica recentiorum. Gefner WeifblaeiTige grofle Waffer- 



a-v. 390. huhn. Frifch, II. 208. 



Follega, Follata, Fulca. Aldr. Fulica atra. Lin.fyft. 257. 



a-z>. III. 39, 42. Blas-klacka. Faun. Suec. fp. 

 Wil. orn. 319. 193. 



Rati fyn. av. 116. Danis Vand-Hoene, Bles- 

 La Foulque, oil Morrelle. Hoene. Brunnicb, 190. 



Brijfon a<v. VI. 23. tab. 2. Br. Zool. 132. 



fig. 1. Lifka. Scopoli, No. 149. 

 Folaga, o Polon. Zinan. 108. 



Descrip. '"'I ^HESE birds weigh from twenty-four to twen- 

 ty-eight ounces. Their belly is afh-colored ; 

 and on the ridge of each wing is a line of white : 

 every part befides is of a deep black : the legs are 

 of a yellowifh greeo : above the knee is a yellow 

 ipot. 



Coots frequent lakes and dill rivers : they make 

 their neft among the rufhes, with grafs, reeds, &c. 

 floating on the water, fo as to rife and fall with it. 

 They lay five or fix large eggs, of a dirty whi- 

 tifh hue, fprinkled over with minute deep ruft co- 

 lor fpotsj and we have been credibly informed that 



they 



