wpioopinC crane. 
confirmed by a white ; who informed him, 
that these birds are very noisy, and that they 
arq seen in the savannahs at the mouth of the 
Altamaha, and other rivers, near St, Augus- 
tine's in Florida, and also in Carolina, but that 
t:hey are never found farther north. 
It is, however, observed by BufFon, that 
they advance into the higher latitudes ; being 
found in Virginia, in Canada, and even in 
Hudson's Bay, 
In Pennant's Arctic Zoology, there is the 
following passage relative to these birds, 
** They make a remarkable whooping 
noise : this makes me imasfine them to have 
been the birds whose clamours Capt. Philip 
Amidas, the first Englishman who ever set 
foot on North America, so graphically de- 
scribes, on his landing on the isle of Woko- 
ikou, ofF the coast of North Carohna, 
'** When," says he, " such a flock of Cranes, 
the most part White, arose under us with such 
31 cry, redoubled by many echoes, as if an 
army 
