BRITISH BIRDS, 
AVOSET. 
SCOOPER, CROOKED-BILL, OR YELPER. 
{Recurvlrojlra jivofetta^ lAn.—lJjivocetie, Buff.) 
This bird, which is the only Britifh fpecies of 
Avofet, does not much exceed the Lapwing in 
the bulk of its body ; but, from the length of its 
legs, it is much taller. It meafures about eighteen 
inches in length, to the end of the toes twenty- two, 
and from tip to tip thirty, and weighs from twelve 
to fourteen ounces. The bill is black, about three 
inches and a half long, and of a fmgular confor- 
mation, looking not unlike flexible flat pieces of 
whalebone, curved upwards to the tip : the irides 
are hazel : the head round, black on the upper 
