Notice of some American Birds. 291 



Art. XVI. — Notice of some American Birds; by Charles Fox, 

 of Durham, England. 



Communicated for insertion in this Journal. 



ScoLOPAX PYGM^A, (Liun.)'! Length eight and a half inches ; 

 bill one and a half inches, black, arched, grooved ; wrinkled at the 

 base, (as in Scolopax Noveboracensis,) nostrils, linear ; plumage, 

 thick, compact ; general color, chesnut red ; front, reddish grey ; 

 crown and hind head black, thickly mottled with chesnut and a lit- 

 tle grey ; neck, deeper chesnut, slightly spotted with black ; back, 

 regularly mottled with black, chesnut and ash, each feather being 

 black and bordered with one of these colors; primaries, clove brown, 

 quills white, for one half from the tips, the other half the color of 

 the feathers ; secondaries and coverts tipped with white, the former, 

 white on the inner vane ; rump same as the wings ; upper tail cov- 

 erts white barred with dark brown ; tail light ash, the interior vane 

 of each feather, white near the quill end, and some of the feathers 

 bordered with the same to the tip ; entire lower parts deep ferrugin- 

 ous ; chin much mottled with yellowish white ; breast slightly mark- 

 ed with short streaks of black, thicker on the sides ; belly mottled 

 with dirty white ; vent dirty white ; under tail, coverts the same, 

 stained with ferruginous and barred with black ; round the eye runs 

 a narrow line of white, legs black. 



This bird does not appear to have been before described as found 

 in America ; it was killed on Long Island salt marshes May 27 th, 

 1835, by a snipe shooter, and brought to Fulton Market in this city, 

 where it was procured. No information could be obtained about it : 

 it was a male specimen, and in fine plumage. 



Phalaropus hyperborea, (^fVils.) Male. This bird agrees in 

 all respects with Mr. Ord's description in Wilson's Am. Orn. ; the 

 stomach contained small worms and fish fry ; it was procured May 

 22, 1835, in the same place, and under the same circumstances as 

 the last. 



CoRVUs Canadensis, {Linn.') Wilson has described the female 

 of this bird from a specimen he killed in winter, and supposes they 

 do not remain in the United States during the summer ; I had the 

 pleasure of meeting with them near Dennison's, on the White moun- 

 tains, N. H., June 24, and of finding the plumage of the female at 

 this season, differ entirely from its winter colors. Here they were 



