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quill and tail-feathers are dujfky, and in both 
the outermoft feather 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 long 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 breaks ; in the fe- 
male, the back is grey, and the dufky flripes 
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 reddifh white. Thefe 
larks are migratory, they vifit 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 fprig-birch ; 
run into fmall holes, and keep clofe to the 
ground, from whence the natives’ give them, 
the name of Chi- chip -pi- fue. 
9. Turdus. 1 2 1. Migratorius, 292. 6. American 
Thrufh. /Fieldfare. Kalm II. p. 90. Faun. Ann 
Sept. II. Catefby I. 29. 
Severn River, N° 59. Albany Fort, 8, 9. 
The deferiptions of. thefe birds in various authors 
coincide with the fpecimens ; at Severn River 
they appear at the beginning of May, and 
leave the environs before the froft lets in. 
At Moofe Fort, in the north latitude 51V 
they build their neft, lay their eggs, and hatch 
their young in the fpace of fourteen days; 
hut at York. fort and Severn fettlement this is- 
done 
