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{bribed from dried fpecimens, in which the 
yellow colour always changes into brown. It 
agrees in other refpedts perfe&ly 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 {hell fifh, worms, and maggots j 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 exa&ly in his 
Syflema Naturae : the middle of the belly has 
no white in the Society’s fpecimen, as that 
had from which the defcription in the Br. 
Zool. odlavo I. p. 353, 354, was taken. All 
the other chara&ers correipond. 
Scolopax. 41. Borealis. New Species . Efkimaux 
Curlew. Faun. Am. Sept, 14. 
Albany Fort, N° 15. 
This fpecies of Curlew, is not yet known to 
the ornithologifts j the hrft mention is made 
of it in the Faunula Americae Septentrionalis, 
or catalogue of North American animals. 
It is called Wee-kee-me-nafe-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- 
Ggg 2 guft, 
