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 fpecimen, 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 about the Salt Lakes, and 
often feen on the ihores of the Cafpian 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, 
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