COOT. 



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GENUS XC III— COOT. 



] Common Coot 



D Var. 



A Var. 

 B Var. 



2 Greater 



A Var. 



C Var. 





3 Crested 



4 Mexican 



5 Cinereous 



ILL strong, thick, sloping to the point ; the base of the upper 

 mandible rising tar up into the forehead ; both mandibles of equal 



length. 



Nostrils inclining to oval, narrow, short. 



Body compressed ; wings short. Tail short. 



Toes long, furnished with broad, scolloped membranes. 



1 — COMMON COOT. 



Fulica atra, Ind. Orn. ii. 777. Lin. i. 257. Fn. suec. No. 193. Gm. Lin. i. 702. 



.Scop. i. No. 149. Brun. No. 190. Muller, No. 216. Kramer, 357. 1. Frisch, 



pi. 20S. Georgi, p. 172. Hasselq. Voy. 200. 34. Sepp, t. p. 61. Bris. vi. 23. 



t. 2. f. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. 365. Rail, 116. A. 1. Will. 239. t. 59. Brown, Jam. 



479. Schcef. t. 34. Klein, 150. 1. Id. Stem. 40. t. 40. f. 1. a. b. Id. Ov. 



36. t. 12. f. 3. Borowsk. iii. 97. 2. Fn. Helv. Amer. Orn. ix. 61. pi. 73. 1. 



Tern. Man. 454. /(/. Ed. 2d. 700. Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 197. 

 Fulica vulgaris, Gerin. v. t. 425. 

 Le Foulque, ou Morelle, Buf. viii. 211. pi. 18. PI. enl. 197. Hist. Prov. 352. 



Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 447. 

 Folaga, 6 Polon, Zinnan. Uov. 10S. t. 19. f. 96. Get. Uc. Sard. 282. 

 Kleiner Bloessling, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 29. 

 Das russfarbige Wasserhuhn, Naturf. xiii. 218. 

 Das gerneine Wasserhuhn, Bechst. Deuts. iii. 251. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. 511. Schmid, 136. 



t. 119. 

 Common Coot, Gen. Syn. v. 275. Id. Sup. 259. Id. Sup. ii. 32S. fir. Zoo/, ii. No. 



220. pi. 77. Id.fol. 132. pi. F. 7d. 1S12. ii. 127. pi. 22. f. 2. Arct. Zool. ii. 



No. 416. Will. Engl. 319. pi. 59. Alb. i. pi. 83. Bewick, ii. pi. 133. ieicin, v. 



pi. 195. Id. Eggs, pi. xxxvii. f. I. Walcot, ii. 167. Donov. pi. 106. Pu/f. 



Dors. p. 16. Graves, Orn. vol. ii. Or^i. X>ic/. $- Supp. 



SIZE of a small Fowl; length eighteen inches; weight thirty 

 ounces. Bill one inch and one-third, greenish white ; on the roof 



