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fcribed from dried fpecimens, In which the 

 yellow colour always changes into brown. It 

 agrees in other refpe&s perfectly well with 

 the defcriptions : it comes to Albany fort in 

 April or beginning of May, and leaves it 

 the latter end of September, It feeds on 

 fmall fhell fifh, worms, and maggots; and 

 frequents the banks of rivers, fwamps, &c. 

 It is called by the natives Sa-fa-Jhew, from 

 the noife it makes. 



Scolopax. 40. Lapponica. 246. 15. Red God- 

 wit. Br. Zool. Faun. Am. Sept. 14. Ed. 138. 

 Churchill River, N° 13. 



Linneus defcribes this bird very exactly in his 

 Syflema Naturae : the middle of the belly has 

 no white in the Society's fpecimen, as that 

 had from which the deleription in the Br. 

 Z00J. o&avo I. p. 353, 354, was taken. All 

 the other characters correspond. 



Scolopax. 41. Borealis. New- Species, Efkimaux 



Curlew. Faun. Am. Sept, 14. 

 Albany Fort, N° 1 5. 



This fpecies of Curlew, is not yet known to 

 the ornithologifts; the flrft mention is made 

 of it in the Faunula Americas Septeptrionalis, 

 or catalogue of North American animals. 

 It is called JVee-kee-me-nqfe~ju> by the natives; 

 feeds on fwamps, worms, grubs, &c ; vifits 

 Albany Fort in April or beginning of May ; 

 breeds to the northward of it, returns in Au- 

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