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G e n u s LXXXI. C O U R I E R .
N° 1. Italian C.
ITJ I L L Ihortj ftrait.
Legs long: thighs fhort: feet palmated, and furnilhed
with a back toe.
j Le Coureur, Brif.Orn. vi. p. £42^
ITALIAN C. Trochilus, or Corrira, Rati Syn, 118. 3.— Will. Orn. p. 321. pi. 60.
E iscriptiom. ^ H i s bird is faid to be lefs than the Avofet, and th^legs not
fo long in proportion. The bill fhorter, ftrait,. yellow, with
a black tip : irides of two colours, firft white, furrounded with
chefnut: the head, and all the upper parts of the body and wings,
are ferruginous : the under parts white : the two middle tail feathers
are white, tipped with black : the others fuppofed to be
black : toes webbed,.as in the Avofet.
Place. This bird is faid to inhabit Italy, and to run very fail; whence
the name given to it. Aldrovandus * is the only one who has
feen the. bird; and it is from him alone that the fucceeding
authors have all had the defcription and figure.
* A*v* tom iii. p. 288. fig. in p. 289.
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