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fanner have escaped notice in a country like this, 
population bears so small a proportion to its 
and where the study of natural history is so 
® attended to. But that these migrations do actually 
fair? north to south, and vice versa, may be 
of '“f®>’*'cd from the common practice of thousands 
.“'ner species of birds less solicitous of concealment, 
also from the following facts, 
bif .fhe 22d day of February I killed two of these 
Wb neighbourhood of Savannah in Georgia, 
Si, tliey have never been observed during the 
ia On the 2d of the May following I shot another 
ri * "atery thicket below Philadelphia, between the 
tb Schuylkill and Delaware, in what is usually called 
Neck. This last was a male, in full plumage. We 
also informed, that they arrive at Hudson’s Bay 
June, and again leave that settlement for the 
her ” n* autumn. That many of them also remain 
breed is proven by the testimony of persons of 
here'* intelligence with whom I have conversed, both 
thei James River in Virginia, who have seen 
"****■*’ ynnnff- f“ tk® extensive meadows 
®<iiu “®'^‘f®J’ the Schuylkill and Delaware it w.'js formerly 
to before the country was so thickly settled there, 
6rass in the first mowing time, among the 
Voop' Mr James Bartram, brother to the botanist, a 
Hop ''?hle and still active man of eighty-three, and well 
fttiU ^*®f®'l with this bird, says, that he has often seen 
of j*^®®ght young rail in his own meadows in the month 
ksiia?/'*-’ ^^® Mso seen their nest, which he says is 
>n a tussock of grass, is formed of a little dry 
tvitb 1 f*™’’ k'’® ®Sg‘* ®f ® dirty whitish colour, 
as jL '’®"'n or blackish spots ; the young run off as soon 
aboof^^ break the shell, are then (juite black, and run 
Very ®*®nng the grass like mice. The old oues he has 
A)ij,p*^p'^®*y observed at that time, but the young often. 
\vb„pf j® '’®*'y old settler along these meadows with 
tail i ^ bave conversed, has occasionally seen young 
a« e “ lowing time ; and all agret! in describing them 
^ vered with blackish down. There can, therefore. 
