222 COOTS. 



COOTS. 



Differs from Gallinules in having toes 

 widely lobated. fig. 164. 



187. COOT. 



Larger than last, 16, differs from it 

 in having bill white and white tips to 

 secondaries, conspicuous in flight; fig. 165. 



Fig. 169 Fig. 170 



Hooded Merganser. 1-8 



Smew. 1-8. 



Young, duller with feathers more or less 

 tipped with white. Notes, half melancholy 

 whistles followed by a gutteral chuckle. 

 Flight, direct with rapid wing-beats with 

 neck outstretched and legs held straight out 

 behind; in raising from water, swims rapidly 

 then runs with flapping wings, swims well, 



