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edition, which cites for authority Edwards’s 46 and 143, 
as before mentioned. 
I shall now give the short description of the bird as I 
find it in Wilson’s Note Book : — 
Bill, black, slender, and one inch and three-eighths. 
In the original the bill is said to be one inch and three 
quarters long ; but that this is a mistake, we have only 
to measure the bill of the figure, drawn of half the size 
of nature, to be convinced of. Wilson always measured 
his bills from the tip to the angle of the mouth. Our 
figure, by this admeasurement, indicates a bill of pre- 
cisely the length of that of Peale’s specimen, which I 
have described in detail. In length, lores, front, crown, 
liindhead, and thence to the back, very pale ash, nearly 
white ; from the anterior angle of the eye, a curving 
stripe of black descends along the neck for an inch or 
more, thence to the shoulders, dark reddish brown, 
which also tinges the white on the side of the neck 
next to it ; under parts, white ; above, dark olive ; 
wings and legs, black. Size of the turnstone. 
The specimen from which the following description 
was taken, was kindly communicated to me by my 
friend Mr Titian It. Peale, while it was yet in a recent 
state, and before it was prepared for the museum. It 
was this individual which enabled me to ascertain the 
species figured by Wilson. It was shot in the neigh- 
bourhood of Philadelphia, on the 7th of May, 1818. 
Bill, narrow, slender, flexible, subulate, of equal 
width; nostrils, basal, and linear; lobes of the toes, 
thick, narrow, and but slightly scalloped. Outer toe, 
connected to the middle one as far as the first joint ; 
inner toe, divided nearly to its base ; hind toe, resting on 
the ground. Bill, black, one inch and three-eighths in 
length ; head above, of an ash gray ; hindhead, whitish, 
which colour extends a short distance down the neck ; 
over the eyes, a white stripe, below them, a white spot ; 
throat and lower parts, white ; a line of black passes 
through the eyes, spreads out towards the hindhead, 
and descends along the neck; lower part of the neck, 
