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fiflier. There are alfo fome, which, I believe, are not men- j778- 

 tioned, or at leafl: vary, very confiderably, from the accounts 

 given of them by any writers who have treated profefTedly 

 on this part of natural hiftory. The two firft of thefe are 

 fpecUi of wood-peckers. One lefs than a thrufli, of a black 

 colour above, with white fpots on the wings, a crimfon 

 head, neck and bread, and a yellowifli olive-coloured belly; 

 from which laft circuniftance it might, perhaps, not im- 

 properly be called the yellow-bellied wood-pecker. The 

 other is a larger, and much more elegant bird, of a dufky 

 brown colour, on the upper part, richly waved with black, 

 except about the head ; the belly of a reddifli caft, with 

 round black fpots ; a black fpot on the breaft ; and the un- 

 der-fide of the wings and tail of a plain fcarlet colour, 

 though blackifh above j with a crimfon ftrcak running 

 from the angle of the mouth, a little down the neck on each 

 fide. The third and fourth, are a fmall bird of the finch 

 kind, about the fize of a linnet, of a dark dufky colour, 

 whitifh below, with a black head and neck, and white bill; 

 and a fand-piper, of the fize of a fmall pigeon, of a dufl^y 

 brown colour, and white below, except the throat and breaft, 

 with a broad wliite band acrofs the wings. There are alfo 

 humming-birds ; which yet feem to differ from the nu- 

 merous forts of this delicate animal already known, unlefs 

 they be a mere variety of the trochilus colubris of Linnseus. 

 Thefe, perhaps, inhabit more to the Southward, and fpread 

 Northward as the feafon advances ; becaufe we faw none at 

 firft, though, near the time of our departure, the natives 

 brought them to the fhips in great numbers. 



The birds which frequent the waters and the (hores, are 

 not more numerous than the others. The quebrantahueflbs, 

 gulls, and (hags were feen off the coaftj and the two laft 



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