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Persia, and China, as well as several parts of India; also the Isle 

 of Java : we believe very few places of the Old Continent, and its 

 Isles, are without them ; are not unfrequent in Jamaica, Carolina, 

 and other parts of North America. The Indians, about Niagara, 

 dress the skins, and use them for pouches ; are called in Carolina. 

 Flusterers: common in the ponds of Georgia, most so in the winter 

 season; extend also to South America, being met with in small 

 numbers in Paraguay. 



A. — Fulica leucoryx, Mus,. Carls, i. pi. 12 Gm. Lin.i. 703. Gen. Syn. Sup. 259. 



This Variety has the eyelids pale; the whole of the wing white, 

 but the shafts of the prime quills black ; in other respects like the 

 Common Species. 



This was found dead in the park at Stockholm, in Sweden. 



B. — Fulica jEthiops, Mus. Carls, fasc. i. pi. 13. Gm. Lin. \. 704. Gen. Syn. Sup. 259. 



This differs from the Common One, in having the feathers of the 

 breast and belly ferruginous, undulated with brown. 



C— White Coot, Br. Zool. ii. No. 220. Var. Gen. Syn. v. 277. 



This Variety was wholly white, except a few feathers on the 

 wings, and about the head, and was shot at Spalding, Lincolnshire. 



D. — Length sixteen inches. Bill as in the Common, with the 

 forehead bare but a very little way, scarcely half so much as usual ; 

 the head and neck black ; the back very dark ash-colour; belly the 

 same, but paler ; outer web of the first quill white, and shorter by 

 three quarters of an inch than the second; under tail coverts white ; 

 tail one inch and three quarters long. 



Inhabits Georgia. — Mr. Abbot. 



