c o o •r, 277 



and many of the intermediate parts. It is alfo met with in Ja- 

 maica, Carolina, and other parts of North America. The Indians 

 about Niagara drefs their fkins, and ufe them {ox pouches. Called 

 in Carolina, Flujierers *. 



A Coot has been once fhot, at Spalding in Lincoln/hire, which 

 was white, except a few feathers in the wings and about the 

 head +. 



We do not find the Coot efteemed as food ; but remember 

 once to have tailed fome young ones which were Ikinned and put 

 into a pie, which was thought very good. 



Fulica aterrima, Lin. Sjfi. i. p. 258. 3. — Scop. Ann. i. N° 150. 2. 



La grandeFoulque, ou la Macroule, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 28. 2. pi. 2. fig. 2. — GREATER C. 



Buf. Oif. viii. p. 220. 

 Fulica major, or greater Coot, Rati Syn. p. 117. 2. — Will. Orn. p. 239, 



pi. 51.— Br. Zool. N° 221. 



'TPHIS is of a larger fize than the laft, but differs not in the Description. 



colour of the plumage, except that it is blacker. Briffbn 

 diftinguilhes the two by the colours of the bare part of the fore- 

 head, which is in this white j and the garters, which are of a 

 deep red J. 



This bird is faid to be found in Lancafiire and Scotland, It Place, 



Ihould feem to be a mere variety of the former, did not authors 

 join in advancing the contrary. They are more plentiful on the 

 continent, being found in Ruffia and the wejiern part of Sibiria 

 very common j and are alfo in plenty at Sologne and the neigh- 



* Jr3. Zool. f Br. Zool. 



% This can be no diftinclion, as birds differ in the colour of thefe parts ac- ' 

 cording to the feafon. 



bouring 



