504 



A V O S E T. 



Class II. 



Section III. WEB-FOOTED BIRDS. 



XXXIX. BILL long, (lender, very thin, deprefTed, bending 

 AVOSET. up wards . 



NOSTRILS narrow, pervious. TONGUE fhort. 

 LEGS very long. FEET palmated. Back toe 

 very fmall. 



228. Scoop- Recurviroftra. Gefner av. Avofetta, L'Avocette. BriJJbn 



inc. 231. av. VI. 538. Tab. 47. 



Avofetta, Beccoitorto, Bcc- fig. 2. 



coroella, Spinzago d'acqua. Krumbfchnabl. Kram. 348. 



Aldr. a~j. III. 114. Recurviroftra Avofetta. Lin* 



Wll. orn. 321. Jyjl. 256. Scopoliy No. 129. 



Rail fyn. au. 117. Skarflacka, Alfit. Faun. Suec, 



The Scooper. Charlton ex. Jf>. 191. 



102. Danis Klyde, Loufugl, Fork- 



The crooked Bill. Dale's bifi. eert Regnfpove. Br. 188. 



Harwich, 402. Br. Z00L 134. 

 Phtt'sbift. Staff. 231. 



AN Avofet that we (hot weighed thirteen 

 ounces. Its length to the end of the tail was 

 eighteen inches, to that of the toes twenty-two : 

 the breadth thirty. This bird may at once be 

 diftinguifhed from all others, by the fingular form 

 of its bill ; which is three inches and a half long, 

 (lender, compreffed very thin, flexible, and of a 

 fubftance like whalebone \ and contrary to the bills 



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