. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . OOts are proportionally stouter than the Galliindes,and decidedly aquatic. Their feet are accordingly hetteradapted for swinnninrs, and inlets of the sea, amon<r the weeds,sedges, and other tall aquatic plants, and their food consistsof mollusca, worms, insects, and especially seeds. Theybuild a very large nest of grasses, flags, and other pl
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . OOts are proportionally stouter than the Galliindes,and decidedly aquatic. Their feet are accordingly hetteradapted for swinnninrs, and inlets of the sea, amon<r the weeds,sedges, and other tall aquatic plants, and their food consistsof mollusca, worms, insects, and especially seeds. Theybuild a very large nest of grasses, flags, and other plants, inwhicli are deposited from five to ten oval light-coloured eggs,dotted and spotted with dusky. The young, at first coveredwith stiffish black down, run about and swim immediatelyafter they are hatched. The species of this genus are few in number, and gene-rally of dark and uniform colours. In Britain there is only-one, which is extensively distributed, but much more abundantin the southern districts. 560 FULICA ATRA. THE BALD COOT. COMMON COOT. CVTE. QUEET. BAXD Fig. 54. Fulica atra. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 257. Fulica atra. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 777. Common Coot and Greater Coot. Mont. Ornith. Diet. Foidque macroule. Fulica atra. Temm. iVfan. dOrn. II. 706. Fulica atra. Common Coot. Flcm. Brit. Anim. 100. Common Coot. Fulica atra. Selb. Illustr. Brit. Ornith. II. 193. Fulica atra. Common Coot. Jen. Brit. Vert, Anim. 221. Fulica atra. Bonap. Comp. List, 53. The head ayid upper part of the neck greyish-black; theupper parts dark hluish-grey, the loicer hroicnish-grey; thefrontal plate white, as are the ends of the 7nandibles. Male.—The Coot, which is the hirgest British hircl ofthe Parrine family, is very similar in form to the hody is bulky, but compressed ; its neck of moderatelength; its head rather small and oblong. The bill is aboutthe length of the head, straight, stout, compressed, tapering. BALD COOT. 561 its extremities luirtl and glossy. The fro
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