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Gifted; ; it was built upon a wall above the ground 
with twigs and ftraw; the female laid fix eggs, ” 
but as fhe did not fie very clofe, they were put 
under a common hen, but were not hatched. 
Linneus 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 aré pinnated, or 
each toe is furrounded by a web; in the Galli- : 
nule, the toes are divided to the beginning. 
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The beak 1s flender, and a little obtufe or blunt. | 
The noftrils are oval, and piccd near the middle of the 
beak. | 
The forehead is carunculated, that 18, warty. 
The wings are armed on the front with one or more fharp 
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HERE are feveral fpecies of the Parra: | 
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 thé bale of 
the 
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