Crass II. 
SCOOPING AVOSET. 
Section III. WEB-FOOTED BIRDS. 
GENUS XVI. AVOSET. 
Br long, slender, very thin, depressed, bend- 
ing upwards. 
NostRILs narrow, pervious. 
ToncuE short. 
Legs very long. 
Toe back very small. 
Recurvirostra avosétta. R. albo 
nigroqué varia. Lath. Ind. 
/ ern. 786. id. Syn. v. 293. 
_ id. Sup. i. 263. 
Recurvirostra. Gesner av. 231. 
Avosetta, Beecostorto, Becco- 
toella, Spinzago d’dequa. 
_ Aldr. av. iii. 114. 
Wil. orn. 321. 
Ratt Syn. av. 117. 
The Scooper. Charlton ex. 
_ 102. 
The crooked Bill. Dale's hist. 
‘ Harwich, 402. 
WAN Avoset that we 
Plott’s hist. Staff. 231. 
Avosetta, L’Avocette. — Bris- 
son, av. vi. 538. Tal. 47. 
Jig. 2. Hist. @ ois. viii. 466. 
Pl. Enl. 353. _ ee, 
Krumbschnabl. Kram. 348. 
Recurvirostra Avosetta. Gm: 
Lin. 693. Scopol, No. 129. 
Skarflacka, Alfit. Faun. Suec. 
sp. 191. 
Danis Klyde, Loufugl, Fork- 
eert Regnspove. Br. 188. 
Br. Zool. 134. Arct. Zool. ii. 
OTR eal Ghhes 
shot weighed thirteen 
ounces. Its length to the end of the tail was 
eighteen inches, to that of the toes twenty-two : 
the breadth thirty. This bird may at once be 
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DeEscrip- 
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