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for them along the shores of lakes Champlain and Ontario, but 
without success. 
Note. — Mr. T. Peale and myself had an opportunity of veri- 
fying the conjecture of the author, as to the winter retreat of 
these birds; we having found them to be extremely numerous 
in the marshes of the coast of Georgia, in the month of January. 
In such multitudes were they along the borders of the streams 
or passages, which separate the sea-islands from the main, that 
their loud and incessant noise became quite as disgusting as the 
monotonous cackle of that intolerable nuisance, the Guinea-fowl 
G. Ord. 
