COOT-FOOTED TRINGA. 
on the feet to be very singular, no bird of the 
Snipe or Tringa kind, which he then knew, 
having any thing hke them. He afterwards, 
however, met with other birds possessing this 
peculiarity; and, among the rest, the present 
subject, which he denominated the Cock 
Coot-Footed Tringa. It agrees, he tells us, 
v,*jth the former bird, " according to the gene- 
ral agreements seen between Cock and Hen. 
They bothdifFer," continues Edwards, from 
tlie Red Coot-Footed Tringa, in that their 
hills are not broader than deep; which breadth 
of bill is manifest in the latter, it being com- 
pressed like a Buck's bill. 
The bill of this bird is black, slender, and 
ending in a point. The upper mandible is 
longer than the nether, and a little bent down- 
ward. It has a blackish line passing from the 
nostril through the eye. The under side of 
the head and throat is white. From behind 
each eye, a line of orange-colour passes down 
on eaclj side of the neck, and joins on the 
tore part of the middle of the neck between 
the wiiite throat. 'The top of the head, hinder 
part of the neck above, all round the lower 
part 
