
OF BIRDS. FF 
lens are deftroyed, that ag tenth a eels 
efcapes from birds of prey. : 
Coots are found in every part of Europe, | 
from Italy to Sweden; in Siberia, Perfia, China,. 
and moft parts of Afia. ‘They are found too in. 
' Jamaica and Carolina, and in other parts of: 
North- America. | 
 drefs their fkins, and ufe them for pouches. - Nia-. : 
para is in North- America, and is perhaps ‘the: 
- largett waterfall in the world. : 
The forehead of the common Coot ts bare, as. 
. far as the crown, and covered with a bluith white 
fin, which becomes reddifh in the breeding fea 
fon. All the plumage is furnifhed with a thick 
down, covered with-clofe but fine feathers, of a 
_bluith black colour. ‘Each toe is furrounded with 
a fcallopped membrane, or fkin; it runs and . 
- fwims upon the water, and j is found in Europe i In 
marfhy parts, , 
_ The*food of Coots is fmall fith bad water-. 
— infects ; fometimes they. eat the roots of the bull. 
me ruth, and feed their young ones with them. | 
Coots frequently make their nefts among the 
i tuthes,. with grafs and reeds, to float upon the 
Water, 2 and to rife and fall with re 
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‘The Indians in the neighbourhood of Niagara» : 
