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from their slender moorings; and we are assured that the nests have 
been seen floating- on the water, with the birds upon them. 
COOT FOOT (Lohipes hyperhoreus^ Cuvier.) 
Phalaropus hyperboreus. Lath. Ind. Oin. 2. p. 773. 1. — Temm. 2. p. 709. — Tringa 
hyperborea, Grael. 1. p. 675. 9. — Phalaropus Williamsii, Linn. Trans. 8. p, 
264. — Larus fidipes alter nostras, Raii, Syn. p, 132. A. 7. — Will. p. 270. — 
Le Phalarope cendie, Buff. 8. p. 224. — C!oot-footed Tringa, Edw. t. 143. — 
Red Phalarope, Br. Zool. 2. No. 219. t. 76. — Lath. Syn. 5. p. 270. l.{ (mas.) 
271. (fem.) — Lewhis Br. Birds, 5. t. 193. — Wale. Syn. 2. t. 157. — Coot-foot, 
Flem. p. 100. 
FEMALE. 
Tringa fulicaria, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 249. 10. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 676. 6. — Phala- 
ropus rufescens, Briss. 6. p. 20. 4.— lb. 8vo. 2. p. 363. — Le Phalarope rouge. 
Buff. 8. p. 225. — Red Coot-footed Tringa, Edw. t. 142. (good fig.) 
i^YOUNG. 
Phalaropus fuscus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 776. 4. — Tringa fusca, Gmel. 1. p. 675. 
33. — Coot-footed Tringa, Edw. Glean, pi. 46. (good fig.) — Brown Phalarope, 
Lath. Ind. Orn. 4. p. 274.* 
Size of the preceding species ; length eight inches i bill black, an 
inch long, slender, strait, except at the end, which bends downwards. 
Top of the head, hind part of the neck, back, and scapulars, deep ash- 
colour ; through the eye from the base of the bill, a dusky streak 
passing backwards ; quill-feathers dusky ; some of the secondaries 
tipped white ; wing coverts ash-colour ; the greater darkest, and tipped 
with white ; the whole under parts, from chin to vent, white ; in some 
the under part and sides of the neck are ferruginous, and the breast 
cinereous ; in others the rump and upper tail coverts are banded dusky 
and white ; tail dusky, dashed with cinereous ; legs and feet black, or 
lead-colour. 
Female. The head, throat, hind-neck, back, scapulars, and upper 
tail coverts, black, margined rufous ; over the eye a pale rufous-brown 
streak ; rump white, spotted with dusky ; under parts from the throat 
dusky red ; wings and tail as in the other sex. 
From the authority of Dr. Latham, we give this as the female. It 
is so rare a species in England that few come under examination in a 
fresh state. ^ Their manners and habits are probably the same as the 
other species before mentioned. 
Inhabits the north of Europe ; said to breed at Hudson’s Bay, and 
lays four eggs. Sometimes called small Cloven-footed Gull, Scallop- 
toed Sandpiper. 
COOT-FOOTED TRINGA. — -A name for the young of the Coot- 
Foot. 
COPPER FINCH. — A name for the Chaffinch. 
CORACIAS (Linnaeus.) — -^R oller, a genus thus characterised ; bill 
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