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fifher. There are alfo fome, which, I believe, are not men- 1778. 
tioned, or at lead; vary, very conliderably, from the accounts ■ ApnL 
given of them by any writers who have treated profeffedly 
on this part of natural hhlory. The two firft of thefe are 
fpecies of wood-peckers. One lefs than a thrufh, of a black 
colour above, with white fpots on the wings, a crimfon 
head, neck and bread:, and a yellowifh olive-coloured belly; 
from which lad; circumftance it might, perhaps, not im¬ 
properly be called the yellow-bellied wood-pecker. The 
other is a larger, and much more elegant bird, of a dufky 
brown colour, on the upper part, richly waved with black, 
except about the head; the belly of a reddifh cad;, with 
round black fpots ; a black fpot on the bread;; and the un- 
der-hde of the wings and tail of a plain fcarlet colour, 
though blackifh above; with a crimfon break running 
from the angle of the mouth, a little down the neck on 
each fide. The third and fourth, are a fmall bird of the 
finch kind, about the fize of a linnet, of a dark dufky co¬ 
lour, whitifh below, with a black head and neck, and white 
bill; and a fand-piper, of the fize of a fmall pigeon, of a 
dufky brown colour, and white below, except the throat 
and bread;, with a broad white band acrofs the wings. 
There are alfo humming-birds; which yet feem to differ 
from the numerous forts of this delicate animal already 
known, unlefs they be a mere variety of the trochilus colu¬ 
mns of Linnaeus. Thefe, perhaps, inhabit more to the 
Southward, and fpread Northward as the feafon advances; 
becaufe we faw none at firft, though, near the time of our 
departure, the natives brought them to the fhips in great 
numbers. 
The birds which frequent the waters and the fhores, are 
not more numerous than the others. The quebrantahueflos, 
Vql. II. Qq gulls, 
