502 AMERICAN AND TEREK AVOSET, 



D I V. II. 



SECT. III. Web-footed. 

 *WITH LONG LEGS. 



XLVI. AVOSET. G^n. Birds, LXXIX. 



4.21. Americak. a ^' With a {lender black bill/fllghdy turning up: head, neokj 

 jr\. and upper part of the breaft, of a pale buff-color : reft of the 

 lower part of the body white: back and primaries black: lefTtr 

 coverts white ; greater black ; beneath which is a long tranfverfe bar 

 of white : legs very long, and dufky : feet femipalmated ; the webs 

 bordering the fides of the toes for a confiderable way. Larger than 

 the Englijh Avoset. 

 fij^cs. This fpecies is preferved in the Leverian Museum. It is a na- 



tive oi North America. I imagine that it fometimes is found entire- 

 ly white; for the bird called by Mr. Edwards (tab. 139.) the While 

 Godwit from HudfopJs Bay, feems to be the fame with this. 



A. Terek. Scolopax cinerea, iVcT. Co»», P^fro/-, xixe 473. tab. xix.-^ifl/^«», in. 



A V. With a bill one inch ten lines long, flightly recurvated : whole 

 upper part of the plumage cinereous : the middle of each fea- 

 ther marked with dufl^y ; on the rump in form of bars : lower part 



of 



