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PIED OYSTER CATCHER. Cuass II. 
GENUS X. OYSTER CATCHER. 
Bit long, compressed, the end cuneated. 
Nostri ts linear. 
TonevE, a third of the length of the bill. 
Tors, only three. 
Hematopus ostralegus. H. 
niger, corpore subtus fascia 
gulari et alarum uropygio 
caudaque basi albis. Lath. 
Ind. orn. 752. id. ‘Syn. Ve 
2109. fab. 84. 
La Pie, Becasse de mer. Belon 
av. 203. 
Hematopus. Gesner av. 548. 
Aldr. av. iii. 176. 
Wil. orn. 297- 
Raii Syn. av. 105. 
L’Huitrier, Pie de mer. Bris- 
son av. v. 38. tab. 3. fig. 1. 
Hist. dois. vii. 119. Pl. 
Enl. 929. 
The Oyster Catcher. Cat, Ca- 
ral. i) 85. 
Hematopus ostralegus. Gm. 
Lin. 694. 
Marspitt, Strandskjura. Faun. 
Suec. sp. 192. 
Pica marina. Cait opusc. 62. 
N. Com. Petr. iv. 425. 
—Tirma, or Trilichan. Martin's 
voy. St. Kilda. 35. 
Islandis mas Tialldur, foemina 
Tilldra. Feroensibus Kiel- 
der. Norvegis Tield v. Kield, 
Glib, Strand-Skiure. Danis 
Strand-Skade. 
189. 
Br. Zool. 127. Arct. Zool. ii. 
196. 
Brunnich, 
SEA Pies are very common on most of our 
coasts; feeding on marine insects, oysters, lim- 
pets, &c. 
Their bills, which are compressed 
sideways, and end obtusely, are very fit instru- 
ments to insinuate between the limpet and the 
rock those shells adhere to, which they do with _ 
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