Class II. GREAT C O O T. 495 



they will fometimes lay fourteen and more. The 

 vouno- when juft hatched are very deformed, and 

 the head mixed with a red coarfe down. In win- 

 ter they often repair to the fea : we have feen the 

 channel near Southampton covered with them : they 

 are often brought to that market, where they are 

 expofed to fale, without their feathers, and fcalded 

 like pigs. We once faw at Spalding, in Lincoln- 

 Jhire, a coot (hot near that place that was white, 

 except a few of the feathers in the wings, and a- 

 bout the head. 



Fulica aterrima. Lin. 258. La grand foulque cm la 221. Great* 

 Scopolt, No. iqo. Macroule. Brijfon d<u. VI. 



Greater Coot. Wil. om. 320. 28. 

 Melon 182. 



THIS fpecies differs from the preceding only 

 in its fuperior fize ; and the exquifke black- 

 nefs of the plumage. 



Difcovered in Lancq/bire and in Scotland. 



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