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juft at the tip: all the wing coverts have a triangular white 

 fpot at the tip : the laft row of wing coverts are tipped like 

 the others, and margined with the fame : fecondary quills dufky 

 green, with pale edges j the greater brown, gloried with green, 

 and tipped with white : the under parts of the body pale afh- 

 colour : bill and legs as in the male. 



Inhabits New York, and other parts of North America; as alfo Place and 

 "Jamaica, and other Weft India IJlands. I have received thefe from 

 both places, and obferve that the Jamaica one is higheft co- 

 loured. Suppofed to breed in Carolina, as they are found there 

 only in fummer. It feeds on fmall fijh, frogs, and crabs. Sits 

 with the head drawn in between the fhoulders for a long time 

 together, on a branch of a tree hanging over the water; from 

 whence it may poflibly dart on a fifh, in the fame manner as the 

 belted Kingjijher * ; which likewife is known by the name of Crab- 

 catcher in Jamaica. 



30. 



Le Crabier gris a tete & queue vertes, Btif, Qif. vii.p. 408. 



Crabier de Cayenne, PI. Enl. 908. Var. A. 



C I ZE of the laft. Bill black : the crown of the head crefted, Description. 



and coloured as in that bird : general colour of the plumage 

 pale flate-colour : fore part of the neck white, marked with lon- 

 gitudinal ferruginous ftreaks : chin pure white : wing coverts 

 blackifti green, margined with rufous : tail fhort, of the fame 

 colour as the creft : legs yellow. 



Found at Cayenne. This is moft certainly a mere variety of Place. 



the laft, if not of a different fex. 



• Vol. i. p. 637. zj. A, 



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