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instances are comparatively few, and it is only where 
there are large bodies of water that shore birds gen- 
erally are likely to be found. Unless large, these 
birds are not conspicuous, and while nearly all have 
pleasant, piping notes, they cannot be considered as 
musical. To the world at large they are of interest 
as excellent eating; if not that, they are ignored. 
They are extremely entertaining, however, to the 
naturalist, and whoever is fond of seeing the birds 
that Nature has designed for certain localities in 
those localities, will regret that many such are yearly 
becoming less abundant. This is particularly true 
of many “shore birds,’ and what Turnbull, in his 
beautiful volume on “Birds of East Pennsylvania,” 
has said of “Birds which have disappeared” will bear 
repeating. 
«« Since the eastern provinces have become more densely populated 
many of the larger and more wary species of birds have changed 
their course of migration, and now reach the arctic regions by a route 
taking them towards the interior of the continent; and there are also 
some formerly known as summer visitants which have now a more 
southern limit. Parrots, for example, are at the present day [this 
was written in 1868] rarely found north of the Carolinas; while Wild 
Turkeys, which were once abundant, although still to be met with in 
suitable localities, are now in very limited numbers. In a rare tract 
printed in 1648, entitled ‘A Description of New Albion,’—a name 
at one time applied to this part of the country,—we read of four or 
five hundred Turkeys forming a single flock. The Pinnated Grouse 
is another interesting bird which has become nearly extinct [quite so 
now] in East Pennsylvania, and entirely so, it is believed, in New 
Jersey. The Whooping Crane may also be said to have disappeared, 
not even a straggler having been seen for some years, It likewise 
seems to have been once very plentiful, for we read in Hakluyt’s 
‘Voyages,’ ed. 1589, fol. 729, that Captain Philip Amadas and his 
fellow-adventurers, who visited and explored the coast in 1584, 
