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Its bill narrow, thin, and corncr'd withall. Our snites* 

 bills are at the farther end broader and roundish, and cut in 

 with cross notches like a rasp to rasp wood withall ; so that 

 the whole upper jaw and bill looketh exactly like a rasp with 

 its handle. Onr snites are also bigger than those of Sjritz- 

 hcrgen, otherwise they are very like one another in shape and 

 colour ; this bill, both above and below, is four square, of a 

 brownish colour, and about two inches long. The head is 

 roundish, and of the same thickness with the neck. 



Their feet are made of three divided claws before, and one 

 behind, which is very short ; their legs are not very long. It 

 is of the colour of a lark ; but when the sun shines upon it, 

 it shews blewish, very like those two colours observed on our 

 ducks' necks when the sun shines upon them : they feed 

 upon the little gray worms and shrimps. We shot some of 

 them in the South Harbour, near the cookery of Harlem : 

 they had not the taste of fish at all. 



2. Of the Snow-Bird.i 



The snotV'hird is no bigger than a sparrow, and like a 

 linnet in his shape, bill, and colour. The bill is short and 

 pointed, its head of the same thickness with its neck. The 

 legs are also like linnets' ; their feet are divided into three 

 fore-claws, with longish crooked nails ; the hinder claw is 

 somewhat shorter, but hath a long bended spur or nail. The 

 legs are grayish, and not very long. 



From their head over all their belly to the tail they are 

 white, like snow, but all over their backs and wings they 

 are gray. Some of them are gray all over, but these are 

 little ones. 



I can tell nothing of its singing, only that it whisseleth a 

 little, as birds use to do when they are hungry. 



^ riectrophanes nivalis; the snow buuting. (See Appendix.) 



