. Hand-book to the birds of Great Britain . ad, and the bill, in some of the exotic species, partakesof the bright colours of the shields. The Coots are found over nearly every part of the Old andNew Worlds, and are strongly represented in South America,where they attain their largest size. I. THE COMMON COOT. FULICA ATRA. Fulica atra, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 257 (1766); Macgill. Brit p. 560 (1852); Dresser, B, Eur. vii. p. 327, pi. 504,fig. 2 (1879); B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 151 (1883);Saunders, ed. Yarrells Brit. B. iii. p. 171 (1883); Seebohm,Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 564(1884); Saunders,
. Hand-book to the birds of Great Britain . ad, and the bill, in some of the exotic species, partakesof the bright colours of the shields. The Coots are found over nearly every part of the Old andNew Worlds, and are strongly represented in South America,where they attain their largest size. I. THE COMMON COOT. FULICA ATRA. Fulica atra, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 257 (1766); Macgill. Brit p. 560 (1852); Dresser, B, Eur. vii. p. 327, pi. 504,fig. 2 (1879); B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 151 (1883);Saunders, ed. Yarrells Brit. B. iii. p. 171 (1883); Seebohm,Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 564(1884); Saunders, Man. Brit. 505 (1889); Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. part xxxi. (1895);Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiii. p. 211 (1894). [Plate CXX.) Adult Male.—General colour above cindery-grey with a slightolive shade on the back ; wing-coverts also cindery-grey, theouter feathers of the bastard-wmg edged with white ; quillsashy-brown wtth dusky tips, the first primary inclining to whity-brown on the outer web: the outer secondaries whitish at the. COMMON COOT. 239 ends ; the innermost secondaries washed with cindery-grey Hkethe back; tail black; head, hind-neck, and throat black;remainder of under surface of body light slaty-grey, with slightremains of ashy margins to the feathers of the chest and centreof the breast; under wing-coverts slaty-grey, with a Une of whitefeathers round the bend of the wing ; under tail-coverts black ;bill very pale lavender, with a pinkish tinge; frontal shieldivory-white; tarsi and feet pearly-grey, with a greenish tinge onthe sides of the tarsus; garter orange-yellow; iris dark length, 14*5 inches ; culmen, from base of shield, 1*35 ;wing, 8-6; tail, 2-2 ; tarsus, 1-3 ; middle toe and claw, Adult Female.—Similar in plumage to the male, but slightlysmaller. Total length, 14 inches; wing, 8i. Young.—Much browner than the adult, the feathers of thehead dusky black edged with white ; lores, eyebrows, and sidesof face white ; under surf
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