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PlIALAROPUS HYPEHBOREUS. 
edition, which cites for authority Edwards’s 46 and 
as before mentioned. ^ 
1 shall noir give the short description of the bird as ^ 
find it in Wilson’s Note Book : — 
Bill, black, slender, and one inch and three-eighth*' 
In the original the bill is said to be one inch and thfS* 
quarters long; but that this is a mistake, we have obO 
to measure the bill of the figure, drawn of half the si^J 
of nature, to bo convinced of. Wilson always measure* 
his bills from the tip to the angle of the mouth. 0 ^ 
figure, by this admeasurement, indicates a bill of 
ciscly the length of that of Pcale’s specimen, which * 
have described in detail. In length, lores, front, cro"’^ 
hindhead, and thence to the back, very pale ash, ucaW 
w'hite ; from the anterior angle of tile eye, a curvh'r 
stripe of black descends along the neck for an inch b 
more, thence to the shoulders, dark reddish broff*’ 
which also tiuges the white on the side of the nB‘' , 
next to it ; under parts, white ; above, dark oli''^' 
wings and legs, black. Size of the tnimstone. 
The specimen from v. hich th(^ following dcscriptiB^ 
was taken, was kindly communicated to me by w 
friend Mr Titian R. Peale, while it was yet in a rece®; 
state, and before it was prepared for the museum, 
was this individual which enabled me to ascertain 
species figured by Mllson. It rvas shot in the neig**' 
bourhood of Philadelphia, on the 7th of May, 1818. , 
Bill, narrow, slender, flexible, subulate, of p‘ 1®, 
width; nostrils, basal, and linear; lobes of the 
thick, narrow, and but slightly’tcalloped. Outer tB* 
connected to the middle one as far as the first 
inner toe, divided nearly to its base ; hind toe, resting B 
the ground. Bill, black, one inch and three-eighths * 
length ; he.ad above, of an ash gray ; hindhead, whit's ’ 
uhich colour extends a short distance down the 
over the eyes, a whiti? stripe, below them, a white spB ' 
throat and lower parts, white; a line of black p»**j 
through the eyes, spreads out towards the hiudheB ’ 
and descends along tho neck ; lower part of the DBt ’ 
