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NATURAL HISTORY. 
CHAP. XXVIII. 
Of web-footed water-fowl — The Avoset — Scooping , Ame- 
rican and Wh ite Avoset — The Courie r — The Flamingo 
— The Ank — The Great Ank — The JRazor-bill — The 
Puffin — The Little Ank — The Tufted and Crested A nk, 
fyc. — The Guillemot — The Foolish, Lesser, and Mar- 
bled Guillemot — The Diyer — The Northern, Speckled 
Black and Red-throated Diver — The Chinese Diver — 
The Tern — The Great, Lesser, Black, and Striated 
Tern — The Noddy — The Petrel — The Fulmar — The 
Shearwater — The Stormy Petrel — The Giant Petrel — 
The Gull — The Black-backed, Skua, Wagel, Herring- 
gulls, fyc. — The Kittiwake — The Common Gull — The 
Black-cap, 8?c. — Modes of taking Sea-fowl — The Mer- 
ganser — The Gooseander — The Dun-Diver — The 
Smew — The Hooded Merganser — The Duck. — The 
Swan — The Goose — The Bean Goose — The Barnacle — 
The Brent Goose — The Mallard — The Eider Duck — 
The V civet, Scoter, Tufted and Scaup Duck — The 
Golden Eye — The. ShaveUer- — The Pintail — The Po- 
chard — The Long-tailed Duck — The Wigeon — The 
Teal — The Muscovy, Brazilian, American, and Chinese 
Ducks — Decoy for Ducks — The Pelican — The 
Frigate- Pelican, or Man-of-War Bird — The Corvorant 
— The Shag — The Gunnel , or Soland Goose — The Booby 
— The Albatross — The Yellow-nosed Albatross — The 
S k i m m e r — The Penguin — The Patagonian Penguin — • 
The Magellenic Penguin — The Tropic Bird — The 
Darter — The White and Black-bellied Darters. 
Of the web-footed water fowl, the lew which are distin- 
guished by the name of long-legged have so near an affinity 
with the birds of the preceding order, that some naturalists 
have classed them among the cranes, or waders; and, in- 
deed, were it not for the very accurate distinction which the 
form of the foot affords, analogy would direct us to this 
arrangement in preference to every other. 
The Avoset is easily distinguished from all other birds by 
the form of its bill, which is very thin, slender, and bends 
considerably upwards. The Scooping Avoset is about the size 
of the lapwing, or eighteen inches long; the bill is three 
inches and a half in length. The top of the head is black, the 
rest of the head, neck, and all the other parts of the body 
