We are entirely ignorant of the habits of this bird, as the 

 few that have been met with in England, may be fuppofed to 

 be only accidental ftragglers. In Mr. White's Hiftory of 

 Selbourn, he mentions that the one he had was killed with 

 five others, near Farnham, Surrey, in the month of April. 

 This specimen, he further fays, " weighed, when drawn and 

 fluffed with pepper, four ounces and a quarter." 



It is not uncommon in the warmer parts of America, in 

 Egypt, and Madras ; " is plentiful abjom the Salt Lakes, and 

 often feen on the fhores of the Qafpian Sea, as well as by the 

 rivers which empty themfelves into it, and in the fouthern 

 deferts of Independent Tartary.'* 



Provincial names Long-Legs or Long-Shanks* 



Our figure was taken from a fpecimen communicated by 

 Mr. Harrison, Parliament-Street, 



