OP PER PEAKE & 
the fore part of each wing, jut within the bend, 
it has a black fpur, about half an inch in length, - 
It 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 — much like the drefs of the 
Dominicans. 
The Dominicans are a religious order, or 
i fociety of men, and like many other hie 
, orders, wear a particular drefs, ) 
Ganvs go. RECURVIROSTRA, 
tue hv U.C FF. 
| The beak is thin, depreffed, flender, bent ap windy: 
pointed, and the point is flexible, or cahly bent. 
_ The nofirils are narrow and pervious. 
_ The feet are webbed, and it has three toes. forwards; 
i the back toe 1s very {mall. 

OST birds with webbed feet ais fhort 
legs, i it is not however the cafe with the 
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, thing 
and 
