. Young folk's illustrated book of birds : with numerous original, instructive and amusing anecdotes . Coots in France,particularly in Lorraine, on the great pools of Tiaucourt,and of Indre; hence we are led to suppose, that they areesteemed as an article of food. But with us, who areenabled, by the abundance and variety of game, to indulgein greater luxuries in that season when our Coots visit us,they are considered as of no account, and are seldom eaten. The European ornithologists represent the membrane onthe forehead of the Coot as white, except in the breedingseason, when it is said to ch
. Young folk's illustrated book of birds : with numerous original, instructive and amusing anecdotes . Coots in France,particularly in Lorraine, on the great pools of Tiaucourt,and of Indre; hence we are led to suppose, that they areesteemed as an article of food. But with us, who areenabled, by the abundance and variety of game, to indulgein greater luxuries in that season when our Coots visit us,they are considered as of no account, and are seldom eaten. The European ornithologists represent the membrane onthe forehead of the Coot as white, except in the breedingseason, when it is said to change its colour to pale circumstance would induce one to suppose, that ourCoot is a different species from the European, which I havenever had the satisfaction to behold; and, indeed, I ammuch of that opinion. It is a very rare occurrence, that the Coot is seen in theTicinity of Philadelphia in the spring or summer. The19th of March, 1814, I had the satisfaction of being pre-Bented with one, a female, which was shot in the Schuylkill,it Qnfn Ferry. I could see no difference in its plama^. THE SUMMER D U C R. 181 tnd markings, from those of the full-grown male, exceptthe head and neck not being of so deep a black. Themembrane on the forehead was not more than half thesize of that of the female specimen, described above, and itwas of the same colour, viz., dark chestnut. All the birdawhich I have ever seen, had this appendage of the samecolour. In Lewis and Clarks history of their expedition, mentionis made of a bird which is common on the Columbia; issaid to be very noisy, to have a sharp, shrill whistle, andio associate in large flocks; it is called the Black is doubtless a species of Coot, but whether or not dif-ferent from ours, cannot be ascertained. How much is itto be regretted; that, in an expedition of discovery, plannedand fitted out by an enlightened government, furnishedwith every means for safety, subsistence, and research, notone naturalist, not o
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