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delicious eating. ‘The other fpecies of Curlew 
are in colour and fhape exactly like the former, 
though inferior in fize, and differ in their man- 
ner of life, as they never frequent the water’s- 
edge, but always keep among the rocks and dry 
ridges, and feed on berries and {mall infects. 
The flefh of this bird is generally more efteemed 
than that of the former, but they are by no means 
fo numerous. This fpecies of Curlew are feldom 
found farther North than Egg River. 
Jack Snipes. Thofe birds vifit Hudfon’s Bay J*sS"P** 
in Summer in confiderable numbers, but are fel- 
dom feen to the North of Whale Cove.. They 
do not arrive till the ice of the rivers is broke 
up, and they retire to the South early in the Fall. 
During their ftay, they always frequent marfhes 
near the fea coaft, and the fhores of great rivers. 
In manner and flight they exa¢tly refemble the 
European Jack Snipe; and when on the wing, 
fly at fuch a diftance from each other, that it is 
but feldom the beft fport{man can get more than 
one or two ata fhot. Their flefh is by no means 
fo delicate as that of the Englifh Snipe. 
Rep Gopwairs, ufually called at the Northern ®«¢ Gos. 
fettlements in Hudfon’s Bay, Plovers. Thofe _ 
birds vifit the fhores of that part in very 
large flocks, and ufually frequent the marfhes 
and the margins of ponds. They alfo frequently 
attend the tide, like the Efquimaux Curlews; fly 
down to low-water-mark, and feed on a {mall fifh, 
not much unlike a fhrimp ; but as the tide flows, 
they 
