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BIRDS. 
[Clafs II 
E C T I O N II. Finned footed Birds * 
GENUS VIII. The COO T. 
SPECIES I. The Coot. Plate If. 
JVil. orii. 319 . 
Rail fyn. av. 116. 
Brijfon av. VI. 23. Tab. 2. Fig. 1. 
^II E S E birds weigh from twenty-four 
to twenty-eight ounces. The figure 
reprefents their ufual fize: their belly 
is afh-colored ; and on each wing is a fpot of 
white : every part befides is of a deep black : the 
legs are of a yellowifh green : above the knee is a 
yellow fpot. 
Coots frequent lakes and flill rivers : they make 
their neft among the rufhes, with grafs, reeds, 
floating on the water, fo as to rife and fall with 
it. They lay five or fix large eggs, of a dirty 
Fulica atra. Lin. Jyfi. 152. 
Fulica recentiorum. Gejner av. 3 90. 
whitifh hue, fprinkled over with minute deep ruft 
color fpots. In winter they often repair to the 
fea : we have feen the channel near Southampton 
covered with them; they are often brought 'to 
that market, where they are expofed to fale, with¬ 
out their feathers, and fcalded like pigs. Authors 
mention ** another fpecies of coot, which is 
larger and of a fuller black than this; we believe 
it is found in Lancajhire , having feen the head 
and feet of one fhot in that county of a fize far 
fuperior to thofe of the common kind. 
** Greater coot. Wit. orn. 320. La Macroule. Brijfon av. VI. 28, 
Tab. 2. Fig. 2. 
GENUS IX. GREBES 
SPECIES I. Great crefted Grebe. Plate It 
Greater crefted and horned Doucker, 
U r il. orn. 340, 
A fti-colored Loon of Dr. Brown 
ibid? Raii fyn. av. 124. 
Plotfs hift. Staff. 229. Tab. 22. 
The cargoofe. Charleton ex. 107. 
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Colymbus criftatus. Lin. fyft. 135, 
Gefner av. 138. 
Colymbus criftatus. Brifon av. VI. 
38. Tab. 4. et Colymbus cor- 
nutus. 45, Tab. 5. Fig. 1. 
11 s fp ecies weighs two pounds. Its 
length is twenty-one inches: the breadth 
thirty : the bill is two inches one fourth 
long y red at the bafe ; black at the point. On 
the head is a large dufky crefl. The cheeks and 
throat are furrounded with a long pendent ruff, 
pf a bright tawny color ; the chin is white ; from 
the. bill to the eye is a black line, and above that 
a white one: the hind part of the neck, and the 
back are of a footy hue ; the rump, for it wants 
a tail, is covered with long foft down 5 the fea¬ 
thers on the ridge of the wing are white : all the 
other wing feathers, except the leffer quil feathers 
are dufky, thofe being white : the breaft and belly 
* The reader is deiired to fupply an omiffion p. 114. thus, 
SECTION I. With cloven feet. 
II. With finned feet. 
1U. With webbed feet. 
