100 BIRDS. niESSIROSTRES. Fulica 



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

 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. S^'st.ii. 257. Penn. Brit. ZooL ii. 

 494. Temm. Orn. ii. 700.—^, Bald Coot ; W, Sar ddwfr foeL— In 

 fresh-water lakes, common. 



Length 1 8, breadth 26 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 wdth 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 quahfied 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. lohatus. Grey Phalarope. — Plmiiage, 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 Gi'ey Phal. Penn. Brit. Zool. ii. 491 Fhal. pla- 



t3a-hinchus, Temm. Orn. ii. 712 — A rare mnter visitant. 

 Length 1j%, breadth IGj-o inches; weight 1| ounce. Bill brown, yellow- 

 ish towards tlie base ; feet gi-eenish-grey ; irides reddish-veUow. A yeUow 

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

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

 nape and crown sooty black, the eye-band pure white — Xest 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 swunming among 

 icebergs on the 10th June, on the west coast of Greenland, in Lat. 68% — Linn. 

 Trans, xii. 536. ; and he afterwards states, that they are abundant during the 

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



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

 depressed at the base, subulate at the tip. 



134. L. hyperhorcus. 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. Liniu Syst. i. 249.— Red 

 Phalarope, Penn. Brit. Zool. ii. 492. — Phalaropus AVilliamsi, Sim. 



monds, Lin. Trans, viii. 264 Phalaropus hyp. Soicerby, Brit. ]\Iis. 



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 



