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from their slender moorings ; and we are assured that the nests have 

 been seen floating- on the water, with the birds upon them. 

 COOT FOOT (Lobipes hyperboreus, Cuvier.) 



Phalaropus hyperboreus, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 773. 1. — Temm. 2. p. 709. — Tringa 

 hyperborea, Gmel. 1. p. 675. 9. — Phalaropus Williamsii, Linn. Trans. 8. p. 

 264.— Larus fidipes alter nostras, Rail, Syn. p. 132. A. 7 —Will. p. 270.— 

 Le Phalarope cendre, Buff. 8. p. 224.— Coot-footed Tringa, Edw. t. 143. — 

 Red Phalarope, Br. Zool. 2. No. 219. t. 76.— Lath, Syn. 5. p. 270. l.j (mas.) 

 271. (fem.)— Lewins Br. Birds, 5. t. 193.— Wale. Syn. 2. t. 157.— Coot-foot, 

 Flem. p. 100. 



FEMALE. 



Tringa fulicaria, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 249. 10.— Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 676. 6.— Phala- 

 ropus rufescens, Briss. 6. p. 20. A.— lb. 8vo. 2. p. 363. — Le Phalarope rouge, 

 Buff. 8. p. 225.— Red Coot-footed Tringa, Edw. t. 142. (good fig.) 



* YOUNG. 



Phalaropus fuscus, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 776. 4. — Tringa fusca, Gmel. 1. p. 675. 

 33. — Coot-footed Tringa, Edw. Glean, pi. 46. (good fig.) — Brown Phalarope, 

 Lath. Ind. Orn. 4. p. 274.* 



Size of the preceding species ; length eight inches : bill black, an 

 inch long-, slender, strait, except at the end, which bends downwards. 

 Top of the head, hind part of the neck, back, and scapulars, deep ash- 

 colour ; through the eye from the base of the bill, a dusky streak 

 passing backwards ; quill-feathers dusky ; some of the secondaries 

 tipped white ; wing coverts ash-colour ; the greater darkest, and tipped 

 with white ; the whole under parts, from chin to vent, white ; in some 

 the under part and sides of the neck are ferruginous, and the breast 

 cinereous ; in others the rump and upper tail coverts are banded dusky 

 and white ; tail dusky, dashed with cinereous ; legs and feet black, or 

 lead-colour. 



Female. The head, throat, hind-neck, back, scapulars, and upper 

 tail coverts, black, margined rufous ; over the eye a pale rufous-brown 

 streak ; rump white, spotted with dusky ; under parts from the throat 

 dusky red ; wings and tail as in the other sex. 



From the authority of Dr. Latham, we give this as the female. It 

 is so rare a species in England that few come under examination in a 

 fresh state. Their manners and habits are probably the same as the 

 other species before mentioned. 



Inhabits the north of Europe ; said to breed at Hudson's Bay, and 

 lays four eggs. Sometimes called small Cloven-footed Gull, Scallop- 

 toed Sandpiper. 



COOT-FOOTED TRINGA.— A name for the young of the Coot- 

 Foot. 



COPPER FINCH.— A name for the Chaffinch. 

 CORACIAS (Linn^us.) — *Roller, a genus thus characterised ; bill 



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