. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. RALLID^. 519. THE COOT. Fi5lica atra, Linnaeus. The Coot is found upon most of the large ponds, lakes and sluggish rivers throughout the British Islands. In East Anglia, owing to successive drainage of its breeding-haunts, it is less plenti- ful than it formerly was, but it is still abundant on the Broads; also on Slapton Ley in Devon, where large numbers are killed at the annual battues ; on Southampton Water; and in Poole Harbour and other parts of Dorsetshire; while on the Nene, in Northamptonshire, it appears to have increased. As a rule it
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. RALLID^. 519. THE COOT. Fi5lica atra, Linnaeus. The Coot is found upon most of the large ponds, lakes and sluggish rivers throughout the British Islands. In East Anglia, owing to successive drainage of its breeding-haunts, it is less plenti- ful than it formerly was, but it is still abundant on the Broads; also on Slapton Ley in Devon, where large numbers are killed at the annual battues ; on Southampton Water; and in Poole Harbour and other parts of Dorsetshire; while on the Nene, in Northamptonshire, it appears to have increased. As a rule it is resident, remaining throughout the winter even in the Hebrides and Orkneys ; though chiefly a summer-visitor to the Shetlands. When the inland waters are closed by frost it migrates to tidal estuaries and the sea-coast. This species is a tolerably regular visitor to the Faeroes, and wanders to the south-west of Iceland, while a solitary example has even reached Greenland. On the coast of Norway, under the influence of the Gulf Stream, the Coot has been found up to lat. 70° N.; while it nests in the southern districts of that country and of Sweden, as well as along the shores of the Baltic, as far as. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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