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is not feen here in winter. It likewife continues 

 in Ireland only during the fummer months, when 

 they are very numerous, as Mr. Smith tells us in 

 the hiftory of Waterford, p. 336. Great numbers 

 appear in Anglefea the latter end of May, it is 

 fuppofed that they pafs over from Ireland^ the paf- 

 age between the two iflands being but fmall. As 

 we have instances of thefe birds lighting on mips in 

 the Channel and the Bay of Bifcay, we conjecture 

 their winter quarters to be in Spain. 



FINNED FOOTED WATER 

 BIRDS. 



Phalaro- VISIT us but feldom ; their breeding place 

 PES * is Lapland*, and other arctic regions. 



Coot. Inhabits Great Britain the whole year. 



Grebes. The great crefted Grebe, the black and white 



Grebe, and little Grebe breed with us, and never 

 migrate •, the others vifit us accidentally, and 

 breed in Lapland. 



WEB-FOOTED BIRDS. 



Avoset. BREED near Fofsdike in Lincolnjhire \ but quit 



their quarters, in winter. They are then mot in 



* Am an. Acad. IV. 590. 



different 



