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G e n u s LXXVIII. C O O T .
N* i. Common Coot.
2. Greater C,
3. Crefted C.
N° 4. Mexican C.
5. Cinereous C.
BIL L , ftrong, thick, Hoping to the points the bafe of the
upper mandible rifing far up into the forehead : both man*
dibles of equal length.
Noftrils incline to oval, narrow, ftiort.
Body compreffed : wings Ihort.
Tail Ihort.
Toes long, furnilhed with broad fcalloped membranes.
This laft diftinftion in the toes will ferve to feparate the above
genus from the Gallimle, both being ranked under one (Fulica)
by Linneeus: as in the laft, the toes are quite plain.
Fulica atra, Lin. Syft. i. p. 257. i.-^Fauti. Suec. 193.*—$«/. Am . i. N° 149. j.
Bruit. igo.— Muller, N° 216.— Kram. El. p. 357. 1.— Fri/ch, t. 208. +- COMMON C.
— Georgi Reißt p. VJ2*
La Foulque, oa Morelle, Brif Oru. vi. p. 23. 1. pi. 2. fig. 2.— Buf. Oif.
viii. p. i l l . pi. 18.— PI. Enl. 197.
The Coot, Rail $yn. p. 116. A. 1 .— Will. Oru. p. 319. pi. 59.— Albiu, i.
pi. 83i— B r . Zfol. N° 220. pll 77,— ArB. Zeal. N” 416.
Br. Mu/. Lev. Muf.
O I Z E of a fmall Fowl: length fifteen inchest weight from DEscRirTiow.
twenty-four to twenty-eight ounces. The bill is an inch and
one third long, of a greenifti white : the forehead bare |as far
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