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 Order IX. WEB-FOOTED. 



*WITH LONG LEGS. 



Genus LXXX. A V O S E T. 



N' 1. Scooping Av. N° 3. White Av. 



a. American Av. 



BILL long, flender, very thin, and bending confiderably 

 upwards. 

 Noftrils narrow and pervious. 

 Tongue fhort. 



Feet palmated ; the webs deeply femilunated between each 

 toe. Back toe very fmalU 



Recurviroilra Avocetta, Lin. Syjl. 1. p. 256. — Faun. Suec. 191. — Amcen. . 



Acad. iv. 591.— Scop. Ann. i. N° 129. — Brim. N° 188.— Midler, N° 214. +. SCOOPING 



—Kram. El. p. 348.— Georgi Reife, p. 172. AV. 



L'Avocette, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 538. pi. 47. fig. 2. — Buf. Oif. viii. p. 466. 



pi. 38.— PI. Enl. 353. 

 Avofetta, Rail Sjn. p. 117. A. 1. — Will. Orn. p. 321. pi. 60. — Allin, i. 



pi. 101.— Br. Zool. N° 228. pi. 80. — Ar8. Zool. p. 503. B. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



HP HIS bird is the fize of the Lapwing in the body, but has Descriftios. 



very long legs : length eighteen inches. The bill is three 

 inches and a half long, and fingular in fhape ; (lender, very flat, 



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