Class II. SCOOPING AVOSET. 



US 



Section III. WEB-FOOTED BIRDS, 



GENUS XVI. AVOSET. 



Bill long, slender, very thin, depressed, bend- 

 ing upwards. 

 Nostrils narrow, pervious. 

 Tongue short. 

 Legs very long. 

 Toe back very small. 



Recurvirostra avosetta. R. albo 



nigroque varia. Lath. Ind. 



em. 786. id. Syn. v. 293. 



id. Sup. i. 263. 

 Recurvirostra. Gesner ao. 231. 

 Avosetta, Beccostorto, Becco 



roella, Spinzago d'acqua. 



Aldr. av. iii. 114. 

 Wil. or n. 321. 

 Rail Syn. av. II7. 

 The Scooper. Charlton e.v. 



102. 

 The crooked Bill. Dales hist. 



Harwich, 402- 



Ploft's hist. Staff. 231. 

 Avosetta, L'Avocette. Bris- 



son, av. vi. 538. Tah. 47. 

 Jig. 2. Hist, d'ois. viii. 466". 



PI. Enl. 353. 

 Krumbschnabl, Kram. 348. 

 Recurvirostra Avosetta. Gm. 



Lin. 693. Scopoli, No. 12g. 

 Skarflacka, Alfit. Faun. Suec. 



sp. 191. 

 Danis Klyde, Loufugl, Fork- 



eert Regnspove. Br. 188. 

 Br. Zool. 134. Arct. Zool. ii. 



213. 



1. Scooping. 



An Avoset that we shot weighed thirteen 

 ounces. Its length to the end of the tail was Dercrip. 

 eighteen inches, to that of the toes twenty -two : 

 the breadth thirty. This bird may at once be 



