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They lay two eggs, about the fize of thofe of a pigeon. Pennant 

 fays, they are white, tinged with green, and marked with large 

 black fpots. In the defcription given by Latham, he obferves, they 

 are of a cinereous grey, whimfically marked with deep brownifh 

 black patches, of irregular fizes and fhapes, befides fome under 

 markings of a dufky hue. 



The Avofet is far more frequent in fome parts of Europe than in 

 England. Albin fays, in Rome and Venice they are common. Salerne 

 writes, in the breeding time they are fo plenty on the coafts of Bas 

 Poiclou, that the peafants take their eggs by thoufands. They are 

 found alfo in RuJJia and Siberia, Denmark, Sweden, and other northern 

 eountrits. 



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