

a. eS. oe ae 
OF BIRD SY. 13 
| {ifted; it was built upon a wall above the ground 
with twigs and ftraw; the female laid fix eggs, 
but as fhe did not fit very clofe, they were put 
under a common hen, but were not hatched. 
-Tinnaus places the Coot and the Gallinule 
under the Genus Fulica. ‘There are other na- 
~ tural hiftorians who divide them into two genera, 
that is, families ; and the difference between them 
is this, in the Coot the feet are pinnated, or 
each toe is furrounded by a web; in the Galli- 
nule, the toes are divided to the beginning. 
GENUS 53. PARRA. 
The beak is flender, ‘and a little obtufe or blunt. 
The noftrils are oval, and placed near the middle of the 
beak. 
The forehead is carunculated, that is, warty. 
__ The wings are armed on the front with one or more fharp 
fpurs. ‘ 
2 pa RE are feveral fpecies of the Parra: 
AL one that is found in Senegal, and that is 
placed by fome writers among the Tringa Genus, 
has red legs ;_ its claws are of a moderate length ; 
the warty fkin on its forehead, or at the bale of 
the 

