British zoology . defcription takes no notice of thebeautiful olive glofs of the plumage of thefe birds;nor that the bill affumes a fuller and brighter redin the courting feafon. It gets its food on grafTy banks, and borders ntrarK k 4 tetk 490 COMMON GALLINULE. Class II. frefli waters, and in the very waters, if they beweedy. It builds upon low trees and flirubs by thewater fide; breeding twice or thrice in the fum-mer; and when the young are grown up, drivesEggs. them away to fhift for themfelves. They lay feveneggs of a dirty white color, thinly fpotted with ruftcolor. It ftrikes with its b
British zoology . defcription takes no notice of thebeautiful olive glofs of the plumage of thefe birds;nor that the bill affumes a fuller and brighter redin the courting feafon. It gets its food on grafTy banks, and borders ntrarK k 4 tetk 490 COMMON GALLINULE. Class II. frefli waters, and in the very waters, if they beweedy. It builds upon low trees and flirubs by thewater fide; breeding twice or thrice in the fum-mer; and when the young are grown up, drivesEggs. them away to fhift for themfelves. They lay feveneggs of a dirty white color, thinly fpotted with ruftcolor. It ftrikes with its bill like a hen; and inthe fpring has a flirill call. In flying it hangsdown its legs : in running often flirts up its tail,and fhews the white feathers. We may obferve,that the bottoms of its toes are fo very flat andbroad (to enable it to fwim) that it feems the birdthat connects the cloven-footed aquatics with thenext tribe -, the fin toed. Sect, PI. LXXVI. A/>Z/X St 210 TOED SAND-PIPER,. Class II. GREY PHALAROPE. 491 Sect. II. FIN-FOOTEDBIRDS. BILL (Irak and (lender. XXXVI. NOSTRILS minute. ToPE^ BODY and LEGS like the furnifhed with fcalloped membranes. Grey Coot footed Tringa, Tringa Lobata. , 249. 218. Grey, Emu. a~o. 308. Faun. Suec. fp. 179. Phil. Tranf. Vol. 50. Bninnich, 171. Le Phalarope. Brijfon av. Br. Zoo/. 126. VI. 12. THIS is about the fize of the common Purre, Descripweighing one ounce. The bill black, notquite an inch long, flatted on the top, and chan-neled on each fide ; and the noftrils are placed inthe channels: the eyes are placed remarkably highin the head : the forehead white: the crown of thehead covered with a patch of a dufky hue, fpot-ted with white and a pale reddifh brown; the red:of the head, and whole under part of the neck andbody are white : the upper part of the neck of alight grey: the back and rump a deep dove color,marked with dufky fpots: the edges of the fca- pulars 49t RE£> PHALAROPE.
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