-SUMMER BUCK OF CAROLINA. 
alive from Carolioa ; but he does not inform 
us whether they bred in England. 
From the name of Summer Ducks, given 
to them by Catesby in his celebrated History 
of Carolina, *' it seems to be inferred,'* savs 
BufFon, that they reside there, and in Vir- 
ginia, during the summer only.*' In winter, 
they have been supposed to retire to Mexico. 
They breed, liowever, in Carolina and Vir- 
ginia ; placing their nests in the holes made 
by the woodpeckers in large trees near water, 
and are said to be particularly attached to the 
cypress. '*The parents," savs BuiFon, " carry 
the voung into the water on their backs; 
when the ducklings, on the smallest symptoms 
of danger, cling fast by the bill of the old 
one." 
