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. History of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . te, except the two outfide feathers, whichare black on their exterior webs; but in flying, thefe forks are frequently clofed fo as to look like alingle feather. The upper part of the plumage is 200 BRITISH BIRDS. of a fine pale lead colour : the quills are of a deepercaft, the outfide ones the darkeft : the legs and feetred. The female, it is faid, forms her neft in the mofsor long coarfe grafs, near the lake, and lays three orfour eggs of a dull olive colour, marked with dif-ferent fized black fpots at the thicker end: it isadded, that fhe covers them only during the night, or in the day when it rains: at all other times Iheleaves the hatching of them to the heat of the fun. This clean-looking bird is pretty common in thefummer months on the fea-coafts, rivers and lakes ofthe Britifh Ifles, and is alfo met with in various pjartsof Europe, Afia, and America. It migrates fouth-ward to the Mediterranean, and to the Madeira andCanary Ifles, and northward as far as Spitzbergenand Greenland.. BRITISH BIRDS. 201