
OF BIRDS. 67 
the fore part of each wing, juft within the bend, 
it has a black fpur, about half an inch in length. 
Jt inhabits marfhy places, in lower Egypt, in the 
month of September ; it is fometimes called the 
Dominican, becaufe the colours of its plumage 
are thought to be very much like the drefS of the 
Dominicans. 
The Dominicans are a religious order, or 
fociety of men, and like many other religious 
orders, wear a particular drefs. 
Genus 5. RECURVIROSTRA, 
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The beak is thin, depreffed, flender, bent upwards, 
i pointed, and the point is flexible, or eafily bent. 
* The noftrils are narrow and pervious. 
i _ The feet are webbed, and it has three toes forwards ; 
4 ih toe is very {mall. 
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MOST birds with webbed feet have fhort 
: + legs, it is not however the cafe with the’ 
i? Avocet, for his legs are very long. But this is 
~ not the moft remarkable appearance in the Avocet, 
for its beak is bent upwards, is very tender, thin, 
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