T HR Wis Hw. 
food chiefly worms and infects. Are alfo very fond of the feeds 
of Saffafras ; as well as Tupelo and Poke Lerries*. 
This is not a fhy bird, as it is feen frequently hopping on the 
ground, quite clofe to the houfes. 
At Hudfon’s Bay it is known by the name of Reddird: the 
Indian name is Pee-pee-chue. 
ENGT H ten inches. Bill black; bafe of the under man- 
dible yellowifh, and befet with a few briftles: head almoft 
black : from the back part of the eye to the hind-head a ferru- 
ginous ftreak: the upper parts of the body dufky afh-colour: 
the wing coverts afh-colour; the leffer ones plain ; all the others 
marked with a ferruginous triangular fpot at the tip: the prime 
quills dufky ; each feather marked with two ferruginous fpots on 
the outer web, one neat the bafe, the other about the middle; 
the fecond quills have one of thefe marks near the end, but 
paler: the tail is dufky afh-colour: the under parts of the body 
rufty orange, paleft near the vent: acrofs the breaft a band of 
black : legs yellow. 
‘The female is of a dufky afh-colour above: throat and chin 
the fame, but paler, a little mixed with white: breaft of a dull 
red, growing nearly white towards the vent, and not croffed with 
a band of black, as in the male. 
This fpecies was found by our late voyagers at George’s Sound, 
and is in the poffeffion of Sir Fof. Banks. 
* Phytolacca decandra, Liz, —- It is faid frequently to eat fo many of thefe, at 
the end of the year, that the flefh itfelf appears of a purplifh colour. 
Ea Lew, 
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DescRIPTLONe 
FEMALES 
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