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finely pe&inated on the under fide. The bill is black, 
and channelled on both fides of the upper mandible ; 
in which channels the noftrils are placed near the fore- 
head : it is comprefied fomewhat like a duck’s bill, 
and ridged along its upper part, as a figure of the 
head in the corner of the plate may fhew. The 
lower head, figured with it, is intended to ihew the 
bill (which is very narrow) of another fpecies of 
coot-footed tringa, brought from North America, 
and defcribed and figured in my Natural Hiftory of 
Birds, &c. plate 46. The eyes are placed farther 
backward from the bill than in many other forts of 
birds ; in which the wifdom of Providence is re- 
markable : for birds of this genus commonly feeding 
in foft muddy ground on the banks of rivers or the 
fea, have occafion to thruft their bills deep into the 
fhores, to extradt worms and infedts; and their eyes 
would be in danger, were they placed more forward. 
The fore part of the head, the neck, bread, belly, 
thighs, covert-feathers withinfide the wings and un- 
der the tail, are white : the top and hinder part of 
the head is black. The lower part of the neck be- 
hind, and the back, are of a blueifh afli or flate- 
colour, with a mixture of blackifh or dulky : the 
upper fides of the wings and tail are of a blackifh or 
dufky colour : the tips of the covert of the wings 
are white ; the tips of the middlemofi: or fhorteft of 
the quills are alfo white, and form white tranfverfe 
bars acrofs the wings. Two or three of the middle 
quills are wholly white, and all of them have their 
inner webs white toward their bottoms. It hath 
twelve feathers in the tail ; the outermost of which, 
on each fide, is edged with white. The covert- 
feathers on the rump, or upper fide of the tail, are 
dulky 
