Hp Up DwS; ONS!) Bray ¥: 
Tays one egg. It preys on young Deer, Rabbets, and Fowls. Retires fouthward 
in Oéfober. Is called by the Indians, Ethenefue Mickefue +. 
A variety of the Gotpen Eacte is alfo a native of the fame place. The 
forehead is brown: crown and hind part of the neck ftriped with brown, white, 
and rufty yellow : lower part of the neck, breaft, and belly, deep brown: coe 
verts of the wings, back, fecondaries, and fcapulars, of the fame color; the two 
laft white towards their bottoms, and mottled with brown: primaries black : mid- 
dle feathers of the tail brown, barred with two or three cinereous bands; exterior 
feathers brown, blotched with cinereous: legs cloathed with pale brown fea- 
thers to the toes, which are yellow. Length three feet. A fpecimen of this 
was prefented to the British Mufeum. 
To thefe may be added a genuine Falcon, communicated to me by Mr. Latham. 
The bill very fharp, and furnifhed with a large and pointed procefs in the upper 
mandible: cere yellowifh: head, front of the neck, breaft, and belly; white: 
each feather marked along the fhaft with a line of brown, narroweft on the head : 
the back and coverts of the wings of a dirty bluifh afh-color; the edges of the 
feathers whitifh, and many of them tipped with the fame: primaries dufky ; ex- 
terior webs blotched with white ; interior barred with the fame color: tail of the 
fame color with the back, barred with white; but the bars do not reach the fhaft, 
and, like thofe in the /celand Falcon, oppofe the dark bars in the adverfe web : 
the legs bluifh. The length of this fine fpecies is two feet two inches. 
Multitudes of birds retire to this remote country, to Labrador, and New- 
foundland, from places moft remotely fouth, perhaps from the Antilles; and fome 
even of the moft delicate little fpecies. Moft of them, with numbers of aquatic 
fowls, are feen returning fouthward, with their young broods, to more favorable 
climates. The favages, in fome refpects, regulate their months by the appearance 
of birds ; and have their Goo/e month from the vernal appearance of Geefe from the 
fouth. All the Grous kind, Ravens, cinereous Crows, Titmoufe, and Lapland 
Finch, brave the fevereft winter ; and feveral of the Falcons and Owls feek thelter 
in the woods. The Rein Deer pafs in vaft herds towards the north, in Oéfober, 
feeking the extreme cold. The male Polar Bears rove out at fea, on the floating 
ice, moft of the winter, and till une: the females lie concealed in the woods, or 
beneath the banks of rivers, till AZarch, when they come abroad with their twin 
cubs, and bend their courfe to the fea in fearch of their conforts. Several are 
killed in their pafflage ; and thofe which are wounded fhew vaft fury, roar hide- 
oufly, and bite and throw up into the air even their own progeny. The females 
and the young, when not interrupted, continue their way to fea. In Fume, the 
+ The defcription and hiftory of this fpecies was communicated to me by Mr, Hutchins. 
males 
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