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Birbs. 
IMeEN. 
PRINCE WILLIAM’S SOUND. 
in abundance as articles of commerce. ‘The fkin of the head of the male leonine 
Seal was alfo offered to fale: in the Voyage it is called the Urfine; but from the 
great fhagginefs of the hair I prefume I am not wrong in my conjecture. This 
is the only place in the northern hemifphere in which it was found by the navi- 
gators *. 
Among the birds were the black Sea Pies with red bills, obferved before in 
Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand. A Duck, equal in fize to our Mallard, 
with a white bill tinged with red near the point, and marked with a black {pot 
on each fide near the bafe: on the forehead a large white triangular fpot, and a 
larger on the hind part of the neck: the reft of the plumage dufky: the tail fhort 
and pointed: the legs red. The female was of duller colors, and the bill was far 
lefs gay. Another fpecies refembled the fmall one found at Kerguellen’s Land. 
A Diver (Grebe?) of the fize of a Partridge; with a black comprefled bill : 
head and neck black: upper part of the body deep brown, obfcurely waved with 
black; the lower part dufky, fpeckled minutely with white. Honey-fuckers, 
probably migratory in this high latitude, frequently flew round the fhips +. 
To give all the additions I am able to my zoologic part, I fhall here mention 
certain f{pecies of Petrels, obferved on the weftern coaft of North America: fuch 
as numberlefs brown Petrels near the entrance of Coox’s river, flying round a 
remarkable fugar-loaf hill {. A fpecies feen near Neotka Sound, about eleven 
inches long, with the noftrils fcarcely tubular: bill and plumage above dufky, 
beneath white: legs back. This is common to Turtle D/le, lat. 19. 48, fouth, 
Jong. 178. 2, weft; and Chriffmas Ife, lat. i. 59, north, long. 202. 30, eaft. 
Another, about thirteen inches long, with the forehead, fpace between the eyes 
and bill, the chin, and throat, of a greyifh white, varied with fpecks of dufky : 
crown and upper part of the body dufky: under parts hoary lead-color: legs 
pallid §. I'may add a fourth, feen off the coaft of Kamt/chatka, which Mr. Ellis 
mentions as being fmall, and of a bluifh color ||. 
Manxunp here fhew a variation from the laft defcribed. The natives are ge- 
nerally above the common ftature, but many below it: fquare-built or ftrong- 
chefted ; their heads moft difproportionably large ; their faces flat, and very broad > 
their necks fhort and thick: their eyes fmall, in comparifon to the vaft breadth of 
their faces: their nofes had full round points, turned up at the end; their hair 
long, thick, black, and ftrong: their beards either very thin, or extirpated ; for 
feveral of the oid men had large, thick, but ftrait beards: their countenances 
generally full of vivacity, good-nature, and franknefs, not unlike the Criffinaux, 
* Voy. ii. 3776 + Same, 378. t Ellis's Narrative, i. 251, § This, and 
the preceding, in the LEver1an Mujeum. | Narrative, ii. 246. 
a people 
