HERON. 43 



bare part of the thighs, black : on the rump the feathers are 

 tufted, and hang curved downwards, as in the common Crane. 



This is an American fpecies, often feen at the mouths of the Place and 

 Savanna, Aratamaha, and other rivers nearer St. Auguftine : in 

 fpring going to the north to breed, .like the common Crane, and 

 returning, like that bird, to the lbuth in autumn. In the fum- 

 mer are found in Hudfon's Bay, at which place they arrive in 

 May, and retire in September; and are chiefly met with in un- 

 frequented places, in the neighbourhood of lakes, where they 

 breed. The neft is made on the ground, compofed of grafs and 

 feathers. They lay two white eggs, like thofe of the Swan, and 

 fit twenty days: the young are at firft yellow, changing to 

 white by degrees. Thefe birds have a loud long note, which 

 may be heard at a great diftance : the food is chiefly worms 

 and infects, which it fearches for at the bottoms of ponds. The 

 natives of Hudfon's Bay call it Wapaw-ucbecbauk *. 



Ardea Canadenfis, Lin. Syft. i. p. 234. 3. _ 



La Grue de la Baye d'Hudfon, Brif. Orn. v. p. 385. 1 1. BROWN CR. 



- brune, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 310. 



Blue Crane, Phil. Tranf. vol. lxii. p. 409. 



Brown and afh-coloured Crane, Edw. pi. 133.— .,&"<?. Zool. N° 340. 



Lev. Muf. 



[" ENGTH three feet three inches : weight feven pounds and Description. 

 a half. Bill three inches and three quarters, and dufkyj 



* For the vernacular name of this, as well as many other birds of North Ame- 

 rica, as alfo the manners of many fpecies, I am indebted to the obfervations 

 of Mr. Hutcbins, of the Hudfon's Bay Company, an intelligent and communicative 

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