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Binns. 
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kind, called here the Sea Gwiniad: the head is not fo dufky : eyes fmaller ; and 
back lefs arched. The nofe of the male is blunt ; and the ftomach mufcular, like 
a gizzard: the female has an arched nofe. They are very numerous in autumn, 
juft when the rivers are frozen over, and are called here Tickomeg. The Salmo 
AréGicus, or Capelin, is obferved to precede the Salmon, and is fometimes thrown 
on fhore in amazing quantities by hard gales. 
The Omifco Maycus is a new fpecies of Trout, taken in AZay in Albany river, 
not exceeding four inches and a half long. It has five branchioftegous rays: firft 
dorfal fin has eleven rays, ventral eight, anal feven, pectoral thirteen: tail fork- 
ed: in the jaws are minute teeth: back, as low as the lateral line, is of a pale 
color, marked with two longitudinal rows of black ftelliform fpots: below the 
Jateral line the color filvery: the belly white. 
The Pike, Br. Zool. iii. N° 153, abounds in all the lakes. It by no means 
arrives at the fize of the English, Mr. Hutchins does not recollect any above the 
weight of twelve pounds. 
The Cyprinus Cataftomus of Dr. Forfter *, or Sucker Carp, is a new f{pecies : of 
which there are two varieties; the Aithco- Mapeth of the Indians, marked with a 
broad ftripe of red along the lateral line, and found on the fea-coaft; and the 
White, or Namapeth, with larger fcales, and wholly of a whitifh color: very 
fcarce in the falt-water, but in fuch plenty in the inland lakes and rivers, as 
to be even burdenfome to the nets. They grow to. the weight of two pounds 
and a half. The form is oblong: the head boney, rugged, and decreafing ta 
the tip of the nofe: the mouth fmall, and placed beneath: the body fcaly : the 
tail lunated. 
Shell-fith are very fcarce in this fea. Mytilus Edulis, the Edible Muffel, Br. 
Zool. iv. N° 73, alone are plentiful ; but of Cockles, only the dead fhells are feen. 
From the number of fhells which are dug up, for the fpace of ten miles inland 
of this flat muddy country, may be collected a proof of the great retreat of the 
water; but for want of inhabitants, the period of its lofs cannot be af- 
certained, 
Among the birds, which efcaped my notice while I was writing the zoologie 
part of this Work, are two of the Eagle kind, found in this country: the firft is the 
YELLow-HEADBD, with a dufky bill, cere, andirides : head and neck yellowifh: 
back dark brown; each feather tipped with dirty yellow. This fpecies appears 
in Hudfon’s Bay in April. Builds its neft in trees, with fticks and grafs; and 
* By whom it is well defcribed and figured, in vol. Ixili, p. 155. tab. vi. of PA, Tranf- 
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