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not fpotted on the edges. She alio wants the black lift on 

 the throat, but otherwise like the male. 



Inhabits Virginia, Carolina, and Canada, and is plenty in New 

 Jerfey, and about New 2'crk, where it is called by fome Hittock y 

 or Pint., and by others High-hole. Both the firft names have fome 

 relation to its note j and perhaps the latter, from the fituation of 

 the neft. It is almofl continually on the ground, and is not ob- 

 ferved to climb on the trees, like others of the genus. It lives 

 chiefly on infecls *, and is commonly very fat, fo as to be 

 thought very palatable for the table. It ftays all the year; and, 

 as it cannot at all times get infects, it muft, perhaps, eat fome 

 kind of grafs or plants in the fields. Its form, and fome of its 

 qualities, make it refemble the Cuckcw f. It feldom climbs up 

 the trees, but only fits occafionally on the branches.. 



Forfier, in the Philofophical Tranfafiions above quoted, ©bferves, 

 that it is a bird of pafTage in the northern parts of America, vifiting 

 the neighbourhood of Albany Fort in April, and leaving it in Sep- 

 tember -, that it lays from four to fix eggs, in hollow trees, and 

 feeds on worms, and other injects. Called by the natives Ou- 

 thee-quan now. 



• In defecl of injetls, I have been informed, that it feeds on the berries of the 

 red cedar, and grows fat on them. This food has been both difgorged by the 

 mouth, after being fhot, as well as found in the ftomach on diffeftion. 



t Linnaus, in his. tenth edition of the Syji. Nat- had ranked this with the 

 "Cuckoivs ; and Bujfon, from its fimilaricy to this genus, has placed it at the end 

 of the Woodpeckers of its clafs. 



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