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NEW YORK S.
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STREAKED S.
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the under fide of the body is white, marked with dufky fpots:
the two middle tail feathers greenifh brown; the others white,
crofied with dufky lines : legs dufky flefh-colour.
The female differs in not having the under parts of the body
fpotted.
This fpecies inhabits America, from Penfylvania to Hudfon’s
Bay, where it arrives in May; and after breeding there, departs
again in September. Is known there by the name of Cbechijha-
JhiJh. It has alfo been met with in England; the bird from
whence Mr. Edwards took his figure and defcription being fhot
in EJfex.
New York Sandpiper, Artt, ZooJ. N° 387.
^ jpH E lefler wing coverts are dufky, edged with white: the
back dufky; the edges of the feathers cinereous : fecondaries
the fame : tail coverts barred black and white : under fide of the
neck and body white : the breaft fpotted with brown : fides beneath
the wings ftreaked with the fame : tail cinereous.
Inhabits the province of New York,
g I Z E of the common Snipe. Bill one inch and a quarter long,
dufky : head and neck white, marked with numerous longitudinal
dufky ftreaks : “back dufky, the feathers edged with white:
fcapulars dulky, margined and mottled with ferruginous: lower
part of the back and tail dufky afh-colour: wing coverts alh-colour:
quills dufky : upper tail coverts, and all the under parts, white {
fides fpotted with dulky: legs dufky, with a tinge o f yellow.
Inhabits Sandwich Sound.
C I Z E uncertain. Bill fhort, flout, and a little fwelling at the
|)oirtt; colour dufky brown, with a black tip : the upper part
of the plumage cinereous, mottled on the fides of the neck
with a paler colour, which comes forward on the breaft: over the
eye a ftreak of white : chin, under parts o f the body, and upper
tail coverts, white : quills and tail dufky : legs deep brown.
Inhabits King George’s Sound.
g I Z E uncertain. Bill black: upper part of the neck and body
dufky black, the feathers edged with ferruginous: beneath cinereous
white: baflard wing, quills, and tail, black: legs cinereous.
Inhabits Newfoundland. From the drawings of Sir Jofeph
Banks.
Lev. Mu/,
g I Z E of the Furre. Bill one inch and a half long, and dufky:
upper parts of the head, neck, and body, variegated with
brown, black, and rufous : forehead and throat pale : fore part
o f the neck and breaft dirty white, longitudinally ftreaked with
black; acrofs the breaft a dufky mottled bar: fides of the body
much the fame: middle of the belly and thighs white: tail fhort,
brown; the inner coverts white on the inner webs: legs dufky.
Inhabits King George’s Sound.
27.
BOREAL S.
Description.
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NEWFOUNDLAND
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VARIEGATED
S.
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