ORDER IX. WEB-FOOTED. 



* WITH LONG LEGS. 



GENUS XCV— AVOSET. 



1 Scooping || 2 American || 3 Red-necked || 4 Oriental 



-DILL long, slender, very thin, and bending considerably upwards. 



Nostrils narrow, and pervious. 



Tongue short. 



Feet pal mated ; the webs deeply semilunated between each toe; 

 back toe very small, at a distance from the ground. 



1 — SCOOPING AVOSET. 



Recurvirostra Avocetta, Ind.Orn.il 786. Lin. \. 256. Faun. suec. No. 191. Amcen. 



ac. iv. 591. It. Oeland. 89. Gm. Lin. i. 693. Scop. i. No. 129. Brun. No. 1S8. 



Muller, No. 214. Kram. 348. Georgi, 172. Sepp, t. p. 69. Bris. vi. 53S. t. 57. 



f.2. Id. 8vo. ii. 504. Rati, 117. A. 1. Will. 240. t. 60. Id. Engl. 321. Bor. 



iii. 85. t. 50. Fn. Helvet. Gerin. v. t. 495. Tern. Man. 379. Id. Ed. ii. p. 591. 

 Pico Corbo, Gabin. de Madrid, i. p. 19. lam. 45. 

 Plotus Recurviroster, Klein, 142. ii. p. 19. 

 Der gemeine Wassersabler, Bechst. Deutsch. iii. p. 223. Id, Ed. ii. iv. 450. t. 25. 2. 



Schmid, 131. t. 115. 

 L'Avocette, Buf. viii. 466. pi. 38. PL enl. 353. Voy. en Barb. i. 280. Salern. Orn. 



359. Celt. nc. Sard. 287. 



