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XXXIV; HERON. Gen. Birds, LXlIf. 



339. Hooping; Hbopnng Crane, Caiejby, i. 75.— £</w. I'^z,-— Latham, iiii 



Saane. Ardea Americana, £/■». 5jy?. 234. 



La Grue blanche, De Biiffan, vii. '^o'i.—Pl. Enl. 88y., 



With a yellovvifh brown bill, ferrated near the end: crown:? 

 covered with a red fkin, thinly befet with black bridles ;: 

 from the bill, beneath each eye, extends a firailar ftripe : on the 

 hind part of the head a triangular black fpot : quil feathers, and a, 

 few of the greater coverta,. black: fecondaries, and the- whole- 

 plumage, of a pure white : webs of the tertials elegantly loofe and; 

 unconnefted, and, falling over the primaries, almoft conceal them :. 

 legs and feet black and fcaly. Length from the bill to the tip 

 of the claws five feet ^tven inches. 

 Place.. Inhabits all parts of iV(7r/^ America, from Florida to Hudfon's Bay,. 



Is migratory : appears early in the fpring about the Alatamaha, and: 

 other rivers near St. Augujline, and then quits the country in great: 

 numbers, and flies north in order to breed in fecurity. They appear 

 in fummer in Hud/on' s Bay, and return fouthward with their- 

 young on approach of winter. They make a remarkable hooping 

 noife : this makes me imagine thefe to have been the birds, whole, 

 clamor Captain Philip Amidas (the firft Englijhman who ever fet foot 

 on Norih America) fo graphically defcribes, on his landing on the- 

 liie. oi Wokokou, o^ the coa.Q: o( Nortb Carolina : " When," fays hcj 

 " fuch a flock of Cranes (the moft part white) arofe under us, with 

 " fuch a cry, redoubled by many ecchoes, as if an armie of men 

 " had fhowted all together." This was in the month of July *| 

 which proves, that in thofe early days this fpecies bred in the then 

 defert parts of the fouthern provinces, till driven away by population,, 

 as was the cafe with the common Crane in England; which abounded 

 in our undrained fens, till cultivation forced them entirely to quit que, 

 kingdom.. 



■•»• Smith's Hiji. Virgin. &C. 2... 



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