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#2 
Coroman- 
dcllcus. 
Curonicus, 
Navius. 
*Avbc(tta, 
BIRDS. GRALL^®. 56. Recuviroftra. 
. Reddifli-yellow ; /ides of the head, chin and telly 
behind the cye.s a dufky fpot ; wings and latef*^ 
feathers near the tip black. 
*lhis bird was once fliot in Kent ; fize of the laft. 
Body with a few waved dniky hripes ; cap rLifty-brf"’y’ ^tS^ 
minute blackiHi Ipots ; 4 firil quill-feathers at the t’l’ 
flight rufous. Probably the other lex. 
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Brown, beneath rufous ; eyebrows. Chin, lower 
the belly, rump and tip of the tail white ; 
thers and band through the eyes black. 
Inhabits Coromandel: fize of the laft. .|ji, 
Bill and tail brown ; thighs white, between them blaek* 
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White ; bill blackilh ; band on the crown and tl’^ 
on the front wdtite ; cap cinereous ; band thr°^=’^(jiisi 
eyes blackilli-W'aved ; back, wings and tail cif®*^ 
legs reddifli. 
Inhabits Curonia. Orbits citron. 
Above varied with cinereous black and whitCj , 
white ; band beneath the eyes dotted with bla*-'^ ’ 
and legs blackifli. 
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56. RECUVIROSTRA. Bill de^reffe^Jlt 
bulate, recurved, pointed, 
the tip : feet palmate, 4-toed, the 
toe not conneded, very Ihort j.. 
placed high up : nofrils narro'Vj V f 
vious : tongue fhort. 
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Variegated with white and black. 
Inhabits Ewope, near thefea; 1 8 inches V 
on worms and infeas, which it fcoops from the 
with its bill ; eggs 2, w’hite, tinged with green , 
with large black fpots, F 
