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Genus LXXVIII. COOT. 



N° 1. Common Coot. N° 4. Mexican C„ 



1. Greater C. 5. Cinereous C. 



3. Crefted C. 



ILL ftrong, thick, Hoping to the point ; the bafe of the 

 upper mandible rifing far up into the forehead : both man- 

 dibles of equal length. 



Noflrils incline to oval, narrow, fliort. 



Body comprefTed : wings fliort. 



Tail fliort. 



Toes long, furniflied with broad fcalloped membranes. 



This laft diftinction in the toes will ferve to feparate the above 

 genus from the Gallinule, both being ranked under one (Fulica) 

 by Limaus : as in the laft, the toes are quite plain. 



Fulica atra, Lin- Syji. i. p. 257. 2. — Faun. Suec. 193. — Scop. Ann. i. N" 149. 



— Brun. 190. — Muller, N° 216. — Kram.El. p. 357. 1. — Fri/cb, t. 208. +■ COMMON C. 

 — Georgi Rei/e, p. 1 72. 

 La Foulque, ou Morelle, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 23. I. pi. 2. fig. 2. — Buf. Oif. 



viii. p. zn. pi. 18. — PI. En!, 197. 

 The Coot, Rail Syn. p. 116. A. 1. — Will. Orn. p. 319. pi. 59. — Albin, i. 

 pi. 83.— Br. Zool. N° 22c, pi. Tj.—Ara. Zoo!. N° 416. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



CIZE of a fmall Fowl: length fifteen inches: weight from DEScurTroN. 



twenty-four to twenty-eight ounces. The bill is an inch and 

 one third long, of a greenifli white : the forehead bare jas far 



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