SCOOPING AVOSET. ^ 503 



of body white : tail cinereous ; outmoft feather on each fide varied 

 with white and afla-color : legs ftort, femipalmated. Size of the 

 Red Sandpiper. 



Frequents and breeds in the north*; and haunts, during the funn- Place. 



mer, th^ Cafpian fea. Migrates through Ruffia and Sibiria. 



B. Scooping, Br. Zoo/, ii. N° 228. — Skarflacka. Alfit, Faun. Suec, N°- igl.-~Amoeit. 

 Acad. iv. 591. — L'Avocette, De Buffon, viii. 466. — PI. Enl. 353. — Latham, iii. 

 —Lev. Mus. 



A V. With a black, thin, flexible bill, three inches and a half long, 



bending upwards half its length : head, hind part of the neckj 



and part of the wings and fcapulars, black : reft of the neck, breaft, 



belly, and tail, white. Weight thirteen ounces. Length, to the end 



of the tail, eighteen inches. Extent thirty. 



Inhabits, in Scandinavia, only the ifle of Oeland, off Sweden ; where Place. 



it rarely appears in the fpring. Is properly a fouthern bird. Very 

 frequent, in the breeding feafon, about FoJfdikeTFaJh, in Lincolnjhire > 

 are then very eafily fhot, flying about one's head like the Lapwing, 

 repeating ftirilly, twit, twit. Lay two eggs, white, tinged with green, 

 and fpotted with black. Are frequent about the fait lakes of the- 

 Tartarian defert, and about the Cafpian fea. 



• DdSIot Pallas. 



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