Identifier: britishzoology02penn (find matches)
Title: British zoology
Year: 1776 (1770s)
Authors: Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
Subjects: Zoology -- Great Britain
Publisher: Warrington, Printed by W. Eyres, for B. White, London
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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357. Fulica recentiorum. Gefner WeifblaeiTige grofle Waffer- a-v. 390. huhn. Frifch, II. 208. Follega, Follata, Fulca. Aldr. Fulica atra. Lin.fyft. 257. a-z>. III. 39, 42. Blas-klacka. Faun. Suec. fp.Wil. orn. 319. 193. Rati fyn. av. 116. Danis Vand-Hoene, Bles-La Foulque, oil Morrelle. Hoene. Brunnicb, 190. Brijfon a<v. VI. 23. tab. 2. Br. Zool. 132. fig. 1. Lifka. Scopoli, No. 149.Folaga, o Polon. Zinan. 108. Descrip. I ^HESE birds weigh from twenty-four to twen-ty-eight ounces. Their belly is afh-colored;and on the ridge of each wing is a line of white:every part befides is of a deep black : the legs areof a yellowifh greeo: above the knee is a yellowipot. Coots frequent lakes and dill rivers: they maketheir neft among the rufhes, with grafs, reeds, &c.floating on the water, fo as to rife and fall with it.They lay five or fix large eggs, of a dirty whi-tifh hue, fprinkled over with minute deep ruft co-lor fpotsj and we have been credibly informed that they LXXVIl. jynaf.
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j&V MO Class II. G R E A T C O O T. 495 they will fometimes lay fourteen and more. Theyoung when juft hatched are very deformed, andthe head mixed with a red coarfe down. In win-ter they often repair to the fea: we have feen thechannel near Southampton covered with them: theyare often brought to that market, where they areexpofed to fale, without their feathers, and fcaldedlike pigs. We once faw at Spalding^ in Lincoln-jhire, a coot (hot near that place that was white,except a few of the feathers in the w7ings, and a-bout the head. Fulica aterrima. Lin. 258. La grand foulque ou la 221 ♦ Great. Scopoli, No. 150. Macroule. BriJ/bn av.VI. Greater Coot. Wil. orn. 320. 28.Belon 182. THIS fpecies differs from the preceding onlyin its fuperior fize -y and the exquifite black-nefs of the plumage. Difcovered in Lancajhire and in Scotland. BILL 496 TIPPET GREBE. Class I!. XXXVIII. BILL (Irons, ftrait, (harp pointed.GREBE *. — A „ TAIL, none. LEGS flat, thin, and ferrated behind with a

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