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quill and tail-feathers are dusky, and in both 

 the outermost feather only has a white exte- 

 rior margin. The coverts of the tail are of 

 a pale ferruginous colour, and two of them 

 are nearly as long as the tail itself. The sca- 

 pulars are ferruginous ; in the male, the head 

 and whole back have a tinge of the same co- 

 lour, marked with dusky streaks ; in the fe- 

 male, the back is grey, and the dusky stripes 

 of a darker hue. The crown of the head is 

 black m the male, dusky in the female ; the 

 forehead is yellow, the bill and feet are black 

 the belly of a dirty reddish white. These 

 larks are migratory, they visit the environs 

 ot Albany Fort in the beginning of May 

 but go further northward to breed : they feed 

 on grass-seeds, and buds of the sprier-birch • 

 run into small holes, and keep close to the 

 ground, from whence the natives give them 

 the name of Chi-chup-pi-sue. 





^' ^.;;^^"f • I j;. ^ Migratorius, 292. 6. American 

 1 brush. I P leldfare. Kalm II. p. 90. Faun. Am. 

 Sept. II. Catesby I. 29. 



Severn River, N° 59. Albany Fort, 7, 8, 9. 



The descriptions of these birds in various authors 

 coincide with the specimens ; at Severn River 

 they appear at the beginning of May, and 

 leave the environs before the frost sets in. 

 At Moose Fort, in the norfh latitude 51° 

 they build their nest, lay thei ogs, and hatch 

 their young in the space of fourteen days ; 

 but at York fort and Severn setdement this is 



done 



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