Class II. G R E A T C O O T. 495 



they will fometimes lay fourteen and more. The 

 young when juft hatched are very deformed, and 

 the head mixed with a red coarfe down. In win- 

 ter they often repair to the fea : we have feen the 

 channel near Southampton covered with them : they 

 are often brought to that market, where they are 

 expofed to fale, without their feathers, and fcalded 

 like pigs. We once faw at Spalding^ in Lincoln- 

 jhire, a coot (hot near that place that was white, 

 except a few of the feathers in the w 7 ings, and a- 

 bout the head. 



Fulica aterrima. Lin. 258. La grand foulque ou la 22 1 ♦ Great. 



Scopoli, No. 150. Macroule. BriJ/bn av.VI. 



Greater Coot. Wil. orn. 320. 28. 

 Belon 182. 



THIS fpecies differs from the preceding only 

 in its fuperior fize - y and the exquifite black- 

 nefs of the plumage. 



Difcovered in Lancajhire and in Scotland. 



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