AUDUBON JOURNAL 



Miles from Nashville, when on My Way to Philadel- 

 phia in 1806 seeing them from time to time untill I left 

 the first range of Mountains Called the Cumberland 

 — of the Nest or time of Incubation I Cannot speak. 

 I am told that during severe winters they will leave 

 the pine Woods and approach Plantations — 



the Length of Both those I attentively examined 

 Was 8 J Inches, Breadth 14^ — 



the Gizzard filled with heads of Small Ants and a few 

 Minute Insects — the birds smells strongly of Pine; as 

 I Hope to be soon able to procure the femelle, I May 

 probably with her portrait give More information — 



Shot also a Young of the Great White Heron, en- 

 tirely destitute of the Pendant silky feathers of the 

 Shoulders, but so well grown that it Might easily in 

 that stage be taken for another Species — Killed Two 

 Young of the Snowy Heron, that Where with an old 

 One, Neither of these had the recumbent feathers of 

 the back and their Legs & feet were all of a Yellowish 

 Green instead of the former Black and feet bright 

 Yellow — Saw some Killdeer plovers. Kind fisher, 

 Green Heron, and a ferruginous Thrush — Low Land 

 bordering Watter courses are usually preferred by 

 these — 



The Martins Hiroundo Purpurea — that leave this 

 place daily. Congregate with a parcel raised Near 

 Thompson's Creek, about 5 Miles from this and I 



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