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Div. II. WATER BIRDS. 
Sect. I. With cloven feet. 
II. With finned feet. 
III. With webbed feet. 
Very long legs and necks : ftrait, ftrong, 
Slender, long, and incurvated bills 
Slender, long, and ftrait bills 
Short, (lender, and ftrait bills - 
Strait bills : no back toe - - 
Short (lender bill, (lightly incurvated - 
Short thick bills 5 the bafe of the upper 
I. 
Genus Page 
and (harp pointed bills I. Herons 116 
II. Curlews 118 
_ III. Woodcocks 119 
. IV. Sandpipers 122 
- V. Plovers 127 
* - - VI. Water rail 130 
mandible produced for 
.VII.Water hens 130 
fome fpace up the forehead - 
II. 
ftiort thick bills: toes furnilhed on their fides with broad (cal- 
* 
loped membranes - " 
Strait lharp pointed bills : toes furnilhed on their fides with broad 
plain membranes - 
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VIII. Coots 132 
IX. Grebes 132 
Long, flender, and comprefled bill turned upwards 
No back toe - 
Strong, ftrait, (harp pointed bills ' " 
Strong bills hooked at the end 5 an angular knob on the lower 
mandible : narrow oblong noftrils - ' * ' “ 
Strait, (lender, (harp pointed bills : forked tails - 
Strong bills hooked at the end ; tubular noftrils : (harp procefs 
inftead of the back toe - 
Long (lender bills hooked at the ends, and the edges furnilhed 
with numerous fmall teeth 
Flat broad bills - 
Each of the four toes conne&ed by a web - 
X. Avofetta 134 
XI. Auks 135 
XII. Divers 
XIII. Gulls 
139 
140 
- XIV. Terns 144 
■XV. Petrels 145 
XVI. Goofanders 147 
XVII. Ducks 149 
XVIII Corvorants 159 
