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reddifh brown, ftreaked with dulky, darkeft on the head : the 

 eyes are placed in a bed of yellow, which fprings from the bafe 

 of the bill, and pafTes over the forehead: from the bill alfo arifes 

 a black ftroke, palling under the eye, and a little way down the 

 neck : the throat and fore part of the neck are yellow ; on the 

 lower part of the neck is a broad black band ; beneath this, all 

 the under parts are very pale yellow : the tail coverts are ferru- 

 ginous, but pale, and two of the feathers nearly as long as the tail 

 itfelf : the wings and tail feathers are of the fame colour as the 

 upper parts of the body, but have the edges paler : the legs and 

 claws black. 

 Female. The male and female differ fomewhat. In the lad the back is 



grey, and the ftripes darker : the crown is dufky, which in the 

 male is nearly black. In other things they refemble one 

 another. 

 Place and This inhabits North America, where it is migratory. It vifits. 



the neighbourhood of Albany * the beginning of May, but goes 

 farther north to breed. In winter it comes, in vaft flocks, into. 

 Virginia and Carolina -f, returning north in fpring. Feeds, du- 

 ring its ftay in the more fouthern parts, on oats and other grain j 

 and while at Albany, on the grafs, and the buds of Sprig Birch. It 

 runs into holes j whence the natives of thefe laft parts have given 

 it the name of Chi-chup-pi-fue, 



The Englijh call it the Ortolan, and reckon it delicious eating. 

 By fome called Snow-bird, as being very plenty in that feafon* 

 Frequently caught in great numbers by means of horfe-hair 

 fpringes placed in fome bare place, the fhow being fcraped away, 



• Phil. Tran/. \ Catefiy. 



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