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poplar trees in fuch numbers that I have feen 
twelve of them killed at one fhot. They ufually 
feed on poplar buds, and are good eating, though 
feldom fat. They build their nefts in trees, the 
fame as the Wood Pigeons do; never lay but 
two eggs, and are very {carce near the fea-coaft in 
the Northern parts of Hudfon’s Bay. 
Sheen The Rep-sreasTeD THRUSHES, commonly call- 
~ edin Hudfon’s Bay the Red Birds, but by fome 
the Black Birds, on account of their note, and by 
others the American Fieldfares ufually make their | 
appearance at Churchill River about the middle 
of May, build their nefts of mud, like the Englifh 
Thrufh, and lay four beautiful blue eggs. They 
have a very loud and pleafing note, which they 
generally exercife moft in the mornings and 
evenings, when perched on fome lofty tree near 
their neft; but when the young can fly they are 
filent, and migrate to the South early in the Fall. 
They are by no means numerous, and are gene- 
rally {een in pairs; they are never fought after as 
an article df food, but when killed by the Indian 
-boys, are efteemed good eating, though they al- 
ways feed on worms and infeéts. 
Croibek,  ©ROSBEAK. Thefe gay birds vifit Churchill 
River in fome years fo early as the latter end of | 
March, but are by no means plentiful; they are 
always feen in pairs, and generally feed on the 
buds of the poplar and willow. ‘The male is in 
moft parts of its plumage of a beautiful crimfon, 
but the female of a dull dirty green. In form 
3 they, 
