. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . 146 BRITISH BIRDS. OF THE AVOSET. Bill long, slender, very thin, depressed, and bendingconsiderably upwards: nostrils narrow and pervious:tongue short: legs very long: feet palmated •, the websdeeply indented from the nails towards their middle ;back toe placed high, and very small. The Avoset is migratory, and is met with in temperateclimates, on the shores in various parts of BRITISH BIRDS* l-3^7-

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