ESQUIMAUX WHIMBREL. 
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the neck, breast, belly, and vent are yellowish white ; 
the neck and breast being striped with longitudinal 
slender brown lines : back deep brown ; the edges 
of the feathers with greyish-white margins : wings 
brown ; the shafts of the primary quills white ; the 
secondaries and lesser coverts edged with grey : the 
under coverts ferruginous, with transverse brown 
fasciae : sides under the wings rufous, fasciated trans- 
versely with brown : the rump brown ; the edges of 
the feathers and spots whitish : the tail short, brown, 
barred with whitish bands : the feathered part of the 
thighs yellowish-white, with brown spots ; the rest 
of them and the legs are bluish-black. 
Native of various parts of North America, appear- 
ing periodically in flocks in Nova Scotia in October 
and November ; and near Albany Fort the beginning 
of May, from whence it departs to the northward, 
and returns in August, and about the end of Sep- 
tember retires southward. It arrives in Hudson's Bay 
in April, or early in May, when it pairs and breeds, 
and departs in August to the shores of New Jersey 
in numbers, from thence they remove in November. 
It feeds on small worms and minute shell-fish and 
on the black-berried heath, and is much esteemed as 
food : it is said to lay four eggs. 
