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XXXI. An Account of a new-difcovered Spe- 
cies of the Snipe or Seringa : In a Letter 
to the Rev . Tho. Birch, Z). D . F. R. S. 
from Mr . George Edwards, Librarian of 
the College of Phyfcians . 
S I R, 
Read May 5 , I Take the liberty to lay before you 
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the figure and defcription of a new- 
difcovered fpecies of the fnipe or tringa kind, which was 
lately fhot at Sowerby-bridge in Yorkshire, and fent 
to me by Mr. Florid: of Worley- dough, near Halli- 
fax in the fame county. If the account, that follows, 
fhall be thought by you deferving to be communi- 
cated to the Royal Society, the real bird, which I have 
preferved dry, fhall be produced at the fame time. 
This bird is like in fhape to molt others of the 
tringa or fnipe kind. Its fize is better fhewn by the 
figure lying before you (See Tab. VI.), than by the 
dried bird, which is much fhrunk fince the drawing 
of it was made. I chufe, by way of diftindion, to 
name it the coot-footed tringa, as it differs fro no- 
ether birds of that genus no otherwife, than in having 
its toes webbed in the fame particular manner as the 
fulica, or our bald-coot. One of its feet is fhewn 
in the plate, magnified a little, to make it the better, 
underdood, in what manner the webs or membranes 
fp reading on both fides of the toes are fcalloped or 
indented at each of the toe-joints. Thefe fcallopings 
are finely pedinated on their outer edges, as the en- 
larged figure exprefleS’. The hinder toe is fmall, and 
finely 
