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XL. OYSTER-CATCHER. Gen. Birds. 



Xr.Zool. ii. N° 2 1 3 .— Ca/g^j-, i. '85.^-^L'Huitrier. Lvi ^It de taer, De Bufon, 406. Pie». 



viii. 1 ig. — PL Enl. g2().-^~Latham, iii. 

 Hasmatopus oftralegus Strandfkjura, Faun, Suec. N" igi.-^Brunmcb, N' 189. 



— Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



i^^ With a long'depreffed bill, cuneated at the end, and of a rich 

 V^ ' orange-color : beneath the throat fometinnes a white bar ; 

 the whole neck befidey, with head, back, and coverts of wings, of a 

 fine black : wings dufky, crofled with a bar of white : under- fide ' 

 of the body white : lower part of the tail white ; end black : legs 

 •ftrong and thick^ of a dirty flefli-color. Weight fixteen ounces. 

 Length feventeen inches. 



Inhabits North America, from New Tork to the Bahama Iflands ; and PfcAcs. 



again is found in Sharks Bay, on the weft coaft of New Holland *, 

 with fome variation of color. It is met with about Curafoa in the 

 Weji Indies f, and wholly black, with a red bill and cinereous leo-s. 



Found as far as Lapmark J. Inhabits all Rujfta and Sibiria. 

 Breeds on the great JrStic flats : and extends to Kamtjchatka. 



* Damfifr, iii, 8^. -f Feui/iif, Oijerv.ed. I yz^. p, 2iQi ' t J'tei" 



Lapmark, 252. 



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