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scribed from dried specimens, in which the 

 yellow colour always changes into brown. It 

 agrees in other respe^ls perfe6lly well with 

 the descriptions : it comes to Albany fort in 

 April or beginning of May, and leaves it 

 the latter end of September. It feeds on 

 small shell fish, worms, and maggots ; and 

 frequents the banks of rivers, swamps, &c. 

 It is called by the natives Sa-sa-shew, from 

 the noise it makes. 



ScoLOPAX, 40. Lapponica. 246. 15. Red God- 

 wit. Br. Zool. Faun, Am. Sept. 14. Ed. 138. 



Churchill River, N° 13. 



Linneus describes this bird very exadlly in his 

 Systema Naturae : the middle of the belly has 

 no white in the Society's specimen, as that 

 had from which the description in the Br. 

 Zool. o61avo I. p. 353, 354, was taken. All 

 the other characters correspond. 



ScoLOPAX. 41. Borealis. New Species. Eskimaux 

 Curlew. Faun. Am. Sept, 14. 



Albany Fort, N° 15. 



This species of Curlew, is not yet known to 

 the ornithologists ; the first mention is made 

 of it in the Faunula Americse Septentrionalis, 

 or catalogue of North American animals. 

 It is called Wee-kee-me-nase-su, by the natives ; 

 feeds on swamps, worms, grubs, &c ; visits 

 Albany Fort in April or beginning of May; 

 breeds to the northward of it, returns in Au- 

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