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I. 411 J 



scribed from dried specimens, in which the 

 yellow colour always changes into brown It 

 agrees in other respefts perfedly well with 

 the descriptions : it comes to Albany fort in 

 April or beginning of May, and leaves it 

 the atter 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-s hew, ' ivom 

 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 exactly 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. odavo I. p. y^T^, 354, was taken. All 

 the other charaders 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 Americ^^ Septentrionalis 

 or catalogue of North American animals.' 

 It is called Wce-kcc-mc-nasc-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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