234 TANAGRA iESTIVA. 
of the Atlantic than in the interior. In both Caroli“^| 
and in Georgia and Florida, they are in great 
In Mexico some of them are probably resident, of> " 
least, winter there, as many other of our sum® 
visitants are known to do. In the northern States to • 
are very rare ; and I do not know that th<‘y have m 
found either in Upper or Lower Canada. Du 
in his History of Louisiana, has rebated some particU' ^ 
of this bird, which have been repeated by almost eV® • 
Subsequent writer on the subject, viz. that “ it inhah' 
the woods on the Mississippi, and collects against " jj 
a v.ast magazine of maize, which it carefully con*'^^, 
with dry leaves, leaving only a small hole for entraO^ 
and is so jealous of it, as never to quit its neighhourn^j 
except to drink.” It is probable, though I 
corroborate the fact, that individuals of this 
may avinter near the Mississippi; but that, in a cl'*'’.,j^ 
so moderate, and where such an exuberance of 
seeds, and berries, is to be found, even during wU* 
this, or any other bird, should take so much pa*')^j]f 
hoarding a vast f^uantity of Indian corn, and attach 
so closely to it, is rather apocryphal. The same 
vol. ii, p. 94, relates similar particulars of the car®^ 
grosbeak, (loxia cardinalis,) which, though it 
in Pennsylvania, where the climate is much 
severe, and where the length and rigours of that 
would require a far larger magazine, and he a thrfm|jjt 
greater stimulus to hoarding, yet has no such 
here. Besides, I have never found a single gf^'i'p), 
Indian corn in the stomach of the summer red'® ,, 
though I have examined many individuals of both s* |u 
On the whole, I consider this account of Du 
much the same light with that of his 
Charlevoix, who gravelv informs us, 
countrvm**^f 
that the 
Canada lay up a store of live mice for winter ; the 
of which they first break, to prevent them from 
away, and then feed them carefully, and fatten t 
till wanted for use.* 
* Travels in Canada, vob i, p. 239. Lond. 1761. 
