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and turns up towards the end, where it finifhes in a fliarp point 5 

 the ncftrils narrow and pervious : irides hazel : the top of the 

 head, taking in the eyes, is black, paffing fome way down the 

 neck, and ending in a point : above and beneath the eye a fpot of 

 white : the remainder of the head and neck, and all the under 

 parts, are white : the back, major part of the fcapulars, outer 

 part of the wing, and leffer quills and tail, are of the fame co- 

 lour ■, but the inner fcapulars, and all down the middle of the 

 wing coverts, and outer webs and ends of the greater quills, are 

 black: the legs very long, and of a pale blue; and the thighs 

 naked for a great part of their length : the toes are webbed, the 

 webs deeply indented; the hind toe fmall, and placed too high 

 up to be of ufe. 



The male and female much alike. 

 Place and Thisfpecies is frequent, in the winter, on the fea-fhores of this 



Manners, kingdom: in Gloucefterfloire, at the Severn's mouth, the eaftern 

 coafts of Suffolk and Norfolk, and fometimes on the lakes of Shrop- 

 Jhire*. Alfo common, at the fame feafon, on the fhores of Kent f. 

 In the breeding feafon are found in the fens in vaft numbers} 

 near FoffdikeWajh in Lincolnfhire, in the fens of Camiridge/hire and 

 Suffolk, and other fimilar places. They lay two eggs, the fize 

 of thofe of a Pigeon, an inch and three quarters in length, of a 

 cinereous grey, whimfically marked with deep brownifh black 

 patches, of irregular fizes and fliapes, befides fome under mark- 

 ings of a dufky hue. They are faid to feed on worms and in- 

 fects J, which they fcoop out of the foft mud with their bills, the 



• Br. Zool. 



\ Mr. Boys twice met with them at Sandwich, fo early as the month of Odder, 



X On the Sea-Flea and Locuji, the Cancer pulex, and locufta. Lin. 



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