WHOOPING CRANE, 
army of men had shouted together." This 
%vas in the month of July ; which proves that, 
in those early days, this species bred in the 
then desart parts of the southern provinces, 
till driven away by population, as was the case 
with the Common Cranes in England, which 
abounded in our undrained fens, till cultivation 
forced them entirely to quit our kingdom." 
This idea seems to be strengthened bv a re- 
mark in Charlevoix's History of New France, 
that there were, in Canada, Cranes of two co- 
lours ; some entirely white, others of a grey 
gridelin: they all, it is added, 'make excellent 
soup. 
The first voyagers to America speak of the 
Cranes which they saw : Peter Maityr says 
that, in the savannahs of Cuba, the Spa- 
niards met with flocks of Cranes twice as 
large as thofe of Europe. 
