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Qenus LXXX. a V O S E T.. 



Scooping Avofetj Gen. Sji:. v. p. 293. N" i. I. 



Recurviroftra avocetta, Se^p Vog. pi. in p. 69. "*" SCOOPING 



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'TpHE weight of this bird is frequently fourteen ounces and a 

 half, Troy: length twenty-two inches j breadth thirty inches: 

 length of the naked part of the legs feven inches. The Avojet 

 appears on the coaft of Kent about the middle of Aprils and de- 

 parts for the moft part the beginning of «S'?/'/f«?^^r*. 



Gevus LXXXII. FLAMINGO,. 



Red Flamingo, Gen. Syti. v, p. 299. N* 1. 



r>R. Sparrmanf met with large flocks of Flamingoes between 

 ifabk and Simon's Bay, near Alphen, in the month of April, 

 feeking their food in pools and puddles that were beginning to 

 dry up. He informs us, that thefe were of a fnow- white colour^ 

 and:the wings of a flaming rofy hue. 



• • Mr. B.tiys. + Foj. i. p. 30, 



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