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placed i-n a kind of cere, as in the two laft. : the top of the head is 

 black j the fides of it, forehead, neck, and all beneath, white : 

 acrofs the breaft a pale dufky bar : the upper parts of the body, 

 wings, and tail, black : the bafe of the quills white on the inner 

 webs : the two middle feathers of the tail are near four inches 

 longer than the reft : legs fcaly, not very flout, colour black. 



We have obferved another of thefe, which had the chin and 

 hind part of the neck mottled dufky and white: at the lower 

 part of the neck the dufky colour advances forwards on each fide : 

 all the upper parts dufky brown : bread and under parts white, 

 crofted with irregular tranfverfe dufky ftreaks : the two middle 

 tail feathers very little longer than the reft. 

 Female. The female faid to be entirely brown, paleft beneath: the 



middle tail feathers only two inches longer than the others *. 

 Place and This is a northern fpecies : is very common in the Hebrides, 



and breeds on heath: comes in May, and retires in Anguft : 

 if difturbed flies about, like the Lapwing, but foon alights. 

 Is alfo found in the Orknies, and on the coafts of Torkfhire y 

 where it is called the Feafer. Met with on the northern 

 coafls of Sweden, Denmark, and RuJJia, as far as Kamtfchatka. 

 Common in Greenland, where it frequents the open fea, as well 

 as the bays.. The. female makes an artlefs neft of grafs and mofs, 

 on a hillock in fome marfhy place, and lays two afh-coloured 



* Br. Zool. — Fahricius fays, that the male and female are alike, and that he is 

 certain of it, having brought them up. Faun. Gmenl.—The Cathara&a copro- 

 theres, Brun. N° 128, anfwers to the laft defcription : this author is uncertain in 

 refpect to the matter himfelf; but fays, that it is held as the female in Iceland 

 and Norway. — Fabricius calls it the young bird. — We have not feen any, except 

 the two firft-defcribed, which are in the Leverian Mufeum. 



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