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eggs, fpotted with black, the fize of thofe of a Hen. Does not 

 often fwim, and flies generally in a flow manner, except it be in 

 purfuit of other birds; which it often attacks, in order to make 

 them difgorge the fijh or other food, which this common plun- 

 derer greedily catches up. Moft authors have told us, that it is 

 the dung of the birds which it fearches after in the purfuit; but 

 later obfervations inform us that the circumftance is not true ; 

 though, from the fuppofition of its being fo, the bird has ob- 

 tained the name of Strunt-jager. 



Edwards received both his birds from Hudfotis Bay, where he 

 informs us that it is called the Man of War : the natives know 

 it by the name of Utay-keeajk *. 



Laras minutus, Pall. Ttav. iii. App. N c 35* 17. 



LITTLE <S. 

 CIZE of the Mijfel Thrujh. Bill reddifli brown : irides blueifh: Description. 



the head and beginning of the neck black: the reft of the 

 neck and body white: back and wings grey; but the quills are 

 white at the ends : tail even, white : legs red. 



Inhabits the fouthern parts of Ruffia and Sibirm : found about Place*. 



the ihores of the Cajpian Sea, and the rivers which fall into it j 

 migrating in fummer northward up the Wolga, in order to 

 breed. 



• Mr. Hutchi?*. 



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