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Genus LXXI. O I S T ER- C ATC HER. 



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N° i. Pied Oifter-catcher. 



ILL long, compreffed, cuneated at the end. 

 Noftrils linear. 

 Tongue fcarce a third of the length of the bill. 

 Toes three in number, all placed forwards; the exterior 

 joined to the middle by a ftrong membrane. 



Hsematopus oftralegus, LinSyft. i. p. 257; 1. — Faun. Suec. 192. — Brun. 1. 



. iS 9 .-M„//„-, p. 27.^2,5. 4-PIEDOISTER- 



Scolopax Pica, Scop. Ann. i. N° 1 35. ^ AL ^ 



L'Hutrier, Brif. Orn. v. p. 38. pi. 3. fig. 2. — Buf. Oif. viii. p. 119. pi. 9. Pl. LXXXIV. 



— Pl. Enl. 929. 

 Sea-pie, Rati Syn. p. 105. 7. — WilL Orn. p. 297. — Albin, i. pl. 78. 

 Pied Oifter-catcher, Br. Zool. p. 213. — Catef. Car. i. pl. 85. — ArSl. Zool. 

 N° 406. 



■ Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



C I Z E of a Crow : length fixteen inches and a quarter : weight 



feventeen ounces. Bill above three inches in length ; ftrait, 



comprefTed on the fides, and in old birds blunt at the end ; the 



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colour of it and the eye-lids orange : irides a glowing crimfon : 

 the head and neck are black, except a fmall fpot of white under 

 the eye-lid, and a crefcent of the fame acrofs the throat : the 

 leffer wing coverts, fcapulars, and upper part of the back, are 

 black : the middle coverts the fame, tipped with white : the 

 greater white : the quills 'are black, marked mors or lefs with 



F f 2 white 



Description'. 



