. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . lour with the Body ; the Tail Feathers are in Numbertwelve, all croffed alternately with black and white Lines; the middle-moft, which are the longeft, being three Inches and a quarter, the refton each Side in Order fomewhat fliorter, the exteriour than the interiour. The Bill is of a pale dilute redifti Colour at the Bafe, black at thePoint, longer for the Bignefs of the Bird than the Smpes or WoodcocK^;the upper Mandible a little longer than the lower ; the Tongue fharp,the JSo
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . lour with the Body ; the Tail Feathers are in Numbertwelve, all croffed alternately with black and white Lines; the middle-moft, which are the longeft, being three Inches and a quarter, the refton each Side in Order fomewhat fliorter, the exteriour than the interiour. The Bill is of a pale dilute redifti Colour at the Bafe, black at thePoint, longer for the Bignefs of the Bird than the Smpes or WoodcocK^;the upper Mandible a little longer than the lower ; the Tongue fharp,the JSoftrils oblong, the Ears great; the Legs are not very long, nakedto the middle of the fecond Joint; the Claws black: the Claw of themiddle fore Toe is on the iniide thinned into an Edge; the outer Toeis joined to the middle one from the Rife to the firft Joint by a prettythick Membrane of a dusky or dark green Colour. It lives and feeks its Food on the fandy Shores by the Sea-ftde, whichfor a great Space are uncovered when the Tide is out, where it walksup and down on the Sands in open View like the Gull, rh JO. -I /(< c-/ ~I/ic uca/iT
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