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EECURVIROSTRA AVOCETTA. THE BLACK-AND- 

 WHITE AVOCET. 



8COOPING AVOSET. SCOOPER. CROOKED-BILL. COBLER'S-AWL. YELPER. 



Fig. 25. 



Recurvirostra Avocetta. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 156. 



Recurvirostra Avocetta. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 786. 



Scooping Avoset. Mont. Om. Diet. 



Avocette a nuque noir. Recurvirostra Avocetta. Temrn. Man. d'Orn. II. 



590. 

 Recurvirostra Avocetta. Scooping Avocet. Flem. Brit. Anim. 101. 

 Scooping Avocet. Recurvirostra Avocetta. Selb. Illustr. II. 90. 

 Recurvirostra Avocetta. Scooping Avoset. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 201. 

 Recurvirostra Avocetta. Bonap. Comp. List. 54. 



Upper part of the head and hind neck for half its length 

 black ; the rest white, excepting some of the scapulars, the 

 smaller icing -coverts, and the primary quills and coverts, 

 which are black. 



Male. — This beautiful bird, which is easily distinguished 

 among our waders by its semipalmated feet, is of a slender 

 form, with the body moderate, the neck long, the head small 

 and much elevated in front ; the bill is more than twice the 

 length of the head, very slender, tapering, depressed, recurved 



