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Inhabits during fummer Carolina. Frequents rivers and ponds. Feeds 

 on fiflij frogs, &c. Retires fou that approach of winter. 



The Bittern o( Hudjon's Bay does not bellow like the Englifo. -45 1- 



To the .Jz^ir/^w Crane may be made thefe additions: — It makes a AH* 



noife like the Whiflling Swan. It is very fhy, and difficult to approach ; 

 the moment it fees a man, be he ever fo far ofFj it inftantly rifes into 

 the air, which refounds with its cries. Its great height giving it the 

 -advantage of feeing all round to a conliderable diftance ; the fportfman 

 is therefore obliged to ufe great caution. The left ruftling of the reeds 

 fets it on its guard. He therefore approaches it under forne cover, or 

 when the bird is bufied in taking the finall fifties, on which it feeds. 

 Apprehenfive as it is of men, it is fearlefs of dogs, and will attack 

 them with great fury, which gives the mafter opportunity of makincr 

 his fliot. In the breeding feafon it is quite intrepid, and will guard its 

 young with great courage, and with its fliarp bill become a very dan- 

 gerous opponent to the perfon who attempts its neft. The male and 

 female alternately proteft the young. Thofe of the firft year are of the 

 color of Gchre ; in the fecond they become white : the flcin is as red. 

 as the bill. They are frequently reared with the young of other Cranes 

 at Toholjki, and other parts of Sibiria, and will agree with them very' 

 well 5 but will grow enraged at die fight of children, and eagerly at- 

 tack them. This fpecies poffibly extends to China, a bird, extremely 

 like it, being frequently feen on the CBinefe paper. 



The White Stoj^k is never feen farther north in Sweden than , ASS' 

 Scania. 



The Bay Ibis has been feen of late years in the iQe of Oland. .^^ 



This fpecies begins to form a fettlement there, and to return annually. 



—Mr. Oedman^ 



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