Peis DB Oey, 
Common Coot. Raii. Ops. LTO A 
Will. Orn. p. 319. pl. 59. 
Albin. I. pl. 83. 
Pon. Br. Lol. No. 220, $1, 99: 
Aré?;, Loal. Nov 416. 
Lath. Gon. Syne G. 275.1. 
— Suppl. 259. 
La Foulque, ou Morelle, Brif. Orn. 6. p. 23. 1. pl. 2 fig. 2. 
Buff. Oif. 8. p. 211. pl. 18.—Pl. enh 197. 
Folago o Polon. Zinan. 108. 
Blas-klacka. Faun. Suec. [p. 193. 
Lifka. Scopoli. No. 149. 
Kleiner Bloefsling, Gunth. Neff. u. eg. t. 29. 
Danis Vand-Hoene, 
Bles-Hoene. Brun. 1go. 
Thefe Birds are common in the fummer throughout England, and 
are fometimes met with in the winter: it frequents feveral northern 
countries, fuch as Sweden, Norway, Ruffia, Siberia, Greenland, &c. 
It is alfo found in Jamaica, in Carolina, and other parts of North 
America. 
It frequents the borders of ponds and lakes, and makes its neft 
among the reeds, grafs, &c. The neft is large, and contains fourteen 
or fifteen, fome fay twenty eggs, two inches and a quarter in length, 
of a pale brownifh white, fprinkled with minute chocolate-coloured 
_ Spots, in a very regular manner. 
The 
