Class II. OYSTER CATCHER. 4*3 



they lay four of a whitifh brown hue, thinly 

 fpotted and ftriped with black : when any one 

 approaches their young, they make a loud and 

 fhrill noife. In winter they affemble in vaft flocks, 

 and are very wild. 



Weight fixteen ounces ; length feventeen inches. De scrip. 

 Bill three inches, compreffed, obtufe at the end, 

 of a rich orange color : hides crimfon : edges of 

 the eye-lids orange •, beneath the lower a white fpot. 

 Head, neck, fcapulars, and coverts of the wings a 

 fine biack ; in- fome the neck marked with white : 

 wings du/ky, with a broad tranfverfe band of 

 white: the back, bread, belly, and thighs white: 

 tail (hort, confifts of twelve feathers ; the lower 

 half white ; the end black : legs thick and ftrong ; 

 of a dirty flefh color : middle toe connected to the 

 exterior toe as far as the firft joint by a ftrong mem- 

 brane : the claws dufky, fhort and flat. 



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