Po A TB OXVIL: 
The fame fpecies is found in feveral parts of the Continent; in 
Greenland, and in America. Latham obferves that it vifits Hudjon’s 
Bay the middle of June, and departs in September. He adds, “ it is 
a folitary bird; and obferved, on any one’s approaching near the eggs, 
to ufe many ftratagems to decoy the perfon from it, by drawing off 
its attention. Called at Hudjon’s Bay, Kifqua, the napi Shifh,”— 
Gen. Syn. 
The fame writer alfo mentions a variety which inhabits Cayenne; 
the length of this variety is fix inches and an half. Bill black: fore- 
head, and before as far as the breaft, white, pafling round the lower 
part of the neck asa collar: the reft of the plumage pale dufky afh- 
colour: the end half of the tail dufky black, the tip fringed with ru- 
fous: legs pale. 
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