. American game in its seasons [microform]. Game and game-birds; Hunting; Gibier; Chasse. 'ston to the THE SNIPE. 159 the red man, to those remote and nearly inaccesBible morasses of the Arctic Eegions whither the foot of man has rarely penetrated, and where the silence of a-es is interrupted only by the roll of the ocean snrf, the'thun- derous crash of some falling iceberg, and the continuous clangor of the myriads and millions of aquatic fowl Avhich pass the period of reproduction in those lone and gloomy, but to them secure and delightful asylums Early in the autumn, or, to speak more corre
. American game in its seasons [microform]. Game and game-birds; Hunting; Gibier; Chasse. 'ston to the THE SNIPE. 159 the red man, to those remote and nearly inaccesBible morasses of the Arctic Eegions whither the foot of man has rarely penetrated, and where the silence of a-es is interrupted only by the roll of the ocean snrf, the'thun- derous crash of some falling iceberg, and the continuous clangor of the myriads and millions of aquatic fowl Avhich pass the period of reproduction in those lone and gloomy, but to them secure and delightful asylums Early in the autumn, or, to speak more correctly, in the latter days of summer, the Bay birds begin to return in hordes innumerable, recruited by the young of the sea- son, which, not having as yet indued the full plumacre of their respective tribes, are often mistaken by sporL men and gunners, miacquainted with the distinctions of natural history, for new species. During the autumn they are much more settled and less restless in their habits than during the spring visit, when they are im- pelled northward by the irresistible cvstrum, whicli at that period stimulates all the migratory birds, even those reared in confinement and caged from the nest, to o-et under way and travel, whither their wondrous instinct orders them, in order to the reproduction of their kind m the localities most genial and secure. Throughout the months of August and September they literally swarm on all our sand-bars, salt meadows,' and wild sea-marshes, feeding on the beaches and about the slinllow pools left by tlie retiring tide, on the marine ammalcula3, worms, aquatic insects, small crabs, minute. ill I - # If •'-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858. New York : C. Scribner
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