COMMON COOT. 



GRALLATORES. 



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THE COMMON COOT. 



Fulica atra, Common Coot, 



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Fulica atra. 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 127. 

 MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 

 BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 149. 

 FLEM. Brit. An. p. 100. 

 SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 193. 

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 221. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xii. 

 Foulque macroule, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 706. 



FULICA. Generic CJiaracters. Beak of medium size, shorter than the head, 

 strong, conical, straight, compressed at the base, higher than broad, superior 

 basal portion extending up the forehead, and dilated, forming a naked patch ; 

 points of both mandibles compressed, of equal length ; the upper one slightly 

 curved the inferior mandible with an angle underneath at the symphysis. 

 Nostrils lateral, pierced longitudinally about the middle of the beak, partly 



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