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quill and tail-feathers are dufky, and in both 

 the outermod fe?*her only has a white exte- 

 rior margin. The coverts of the tail are of 

 a pale ferruginous colour, and two of them 

 are nearly as Ions: as the tail itfelf. Thefca- 

 pulars are ferruginous; in the male, the head 

 and whole back have a tinge of the fame co- 

 lour, marked with dufky {freaks ; in the fe- 

 male, the back is grey, and the dufky ftripes 

 of a darker hue. The crown of the head is 

 black in the male, dufky in the female ; the 

 forehead is yellow, the bill and feet are black, 

 the belly of a dirty reddiili white. Thefe 

 larks are migratcry, they vilit the environs 

 of Albany Fort in the beginning of May,, . 

 but go further northward to breed : they feed 

 on grafs- feeds, and buds of the iprig-birch ; 

 run into frnail holes, and keep dole to the 

 ground, from whence the natives give them 

 the name of ' CJji-chup-pi-fue^ 



9.. Turdus.^-2T. Migratorius, 292. 6. American: 

 Thrufh.j Fieldfare. Kalm II. p. 90. Faun. Am. < 

 Sept. II. Catefbv-I. 29. 



Severn River, N° 59. Albany Fort, 7, 8, 9. 



The defcriptions of thefe birds in various authors-. 

 coincide with the fpecimens $ -at Severn River 

 they appear at the begin ning. of May, and .: 

 leave the environs before the froft lets in. 

 At Mooie-Fort, in the. north latitude 51 . . 

 . they build their n eft,, lay their eggs, and hatch ■ 

 their young in the ipace of fourteen days; 

 but. at .York fort ■acd*$eyem.fet.tJement this is - 



done.: 



