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The Wezel Coot. 



Numb. LXXXVIII. 



ITS Length from the Tip of the Bill to the End of the Tail, or Legs, is 

 feventeen Inches; Breadth when the Wings are expanded two Foot 

 three Inches and a half ; it weighs twenty four Ounces, and is about the 

 Bignefs of a Teal. 



The Bill is black, the upper Mandible fomething longer than the lower, 

 both ferrate, the upper fitting into that of the lower when clofed. 



The Top of the Head is brown, it hath a black Spot reaching from the 

 Bill beyond the Eyes ; under the Eyes is a Spot of white like a Star ; the up- 

 per Side of the Neck, Back and Tail are of a dusky brown, inclining to a 

 black, and the under Side of the Neck, Breaft and Belly white. 



The Wings have twenty three quill Feathers each, the firft fourteen of 

 which are black, and the feven following are white ; the twenty fecond 

 hath its exterior Web white, and the interior black; the twenty third all 

 black, and the upper covert Feathers of the Wings are white. 



The Tail is made up of fixteen Feathers of a dusky Colour, the middle- 

 moft being the longeft, and fo fhorter by Degrees on each Side, makng 

 a Semicircular Circumference when fpread. 



The Tongue is redifh, flefhy and channelled in the middle, ending in a 

 thin filmy Subftance. 



The Legs and Toes are of a pale Orange Colour, in fome black ; the Mem- 

 brane connedling the Toes is black ; the outer fore Toe equal with the middle 

 Toe, having four Joints, the middlemoft three, and inner fore Toe but two 

 Joints ; the hind Toe is large and flat, having a broad lateral Membrane an- 

 nexed to it. 



Thefe Birds, when fat, are equal to the Teal in Tafle and Goodnefs. 



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