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BIllDS. PRESSIROSTRES. 
Fulica 
Gen. LXII. FULICA. Coot. — Toes bordered by a scal- 
loped membrane. 
132. F. atra. Common Coot Head and neck black ; back 
black, tinged with cinereous ; beneath paler. 
Will. Orn. 239. Sibb. Scot. 20. Linn. Syst. ii. 257. Penn. Brit. ^ool. ii. 
494. Temm. Orn. ii. 706.— Bald Coot ; W, Sar ddwfr foel — In 
fresh-water lakes, common. 
Length 18, breadth 28 inches ; weight 24 to 30 ounces. BiU flesh-co- 
loured. Irides red. Legs greenish, the garter yellow. Tail of 12 feathers. 
Female with the frontal plate less — Nest of flags, on the margins of lakes. 
Eggs 6 to 14, white, tinged and spotted with brown. Young with the frontal 
plate small, and the plumage beneath tinged with brown — This species, 
though well fitted for swimming, is, according to the observations of Mr 
Youell (Lin. Trans, xiv. 588.), equally qualified to walk steadily, and ascends 
trees readily. It picks up grain quicker than domestic poultry. 
Gen. LXIII. PHALAROPUS. Phalarope.— Bill slender, 
depressed and dilated at the extremity. 
133. P. lobatus. Grey Phalarope. — Plumage, above, black- 
ish-brown, the feathers bordered with orange-red ; beneath 
brick-red. 
Grey coot-footed Tringa, Edwards^ Phil. Trans, iv. 255 — Tringa lobata, 
Linn. Syst. i. 249. — Grey Phal. Penn. Brit. Zool. ii. 491. — PhaL pla- 
tyrhinchus, Temm. Orn. ii. 712 — A rare winter visitant. 
Length 7/o^ breadth 16y% inches ; weight If ounce. Bill brown, yellow- 
ish towards the base ; feet greenish-grey ; irides reddish-yellow. A yellow 
band above the eyes. Wing-covers black, with white tips. A white band 
across the wings. Rump white, with black spots. Female larger, the front, 
nape and crown sooty black, the eye-band pure white — Nest imknown. 
Young with a black horse-shoe mark on the nape ; the plumage, above, cine- 
reous-brown with yellow margins ; beneath white. In winter, the old birds 
resemble in plumage the young. — This bird seems to breed in the Arctic Re- 
gions. Captain Sabine states, that a flock of them was seen swimming among 
icebergs on the 10th June, on the west coast of Greenland, in Lat. 68°, — Linn. 
Trans, xii. 536. ; and he afterwards states, that they are abundant during the 
summer months on the North Georgian Islands, — Parry's Isi Voyage^ App. cci. 
Gen. LXIV. LOBIPES. Cootfoot. — Bill slender, straight, 
depressed at the base, subulate at the tip. 
134. L. hyperboreus. Red Coot-foot. — Crown, nape, over 
the eye and sides of the breast deep ash-grey ; sides and front 
of the neck reddish-brown. 
Larus fidipes. Will. Orn. 270 — Tringa hyp. Linn. Syst. i. 249. — Red 
Phalarope, Penn. Brit. Zool. ii. 492. — Phalaropus Williamsi, Sim- 
monds^ Lin. Trans, viii. 264 Phalaropus hyp. Sowerby^ Brit. Mis. 
Tab. X. Temm. Orn. ii. 709 — Breeds in Orkney. 
Length 8, breadth 14 inches. Bill black, slightly deflected at the extre- 
mity. Feet greenish-grey. Irides brown. Plumage, above, black, bordered 
