. A popular handbook of the birds of Canada and the United States [microform]. Oiseaux; Birds. 92 WADING Sutes, but is whoUy unknown in the high boreal regions ot the continent. In the winter it proceeds as tar south as the tropics, having been seen in the marshes of Cayenne, and their breeding-stations are known to extend from New Orleans to Massachusetts. It arrives in Penns>lvania earljr in the month of April, and soon Ukes possession of its ancient nurseries, which are usuaUy (in the Middle and Southern States) the most soUury and deeply shaded part of a cedar-swamp, or some inu
. A popular handbook of the birds of Canada and the United States [microform]. Oiseaux; Birds. 92 WADING Sutes, but is whoUy unknown in the high boreal regions ot the continent. In the winter it proceeds as tar south as the tropics, having been seen in the marshes of Cayenne, and their breeding-stations are known to extend from New Orleans to Massachusetts. It arrives in Penns>lvania earljr in the month of April, and soon Ukes possession of its ancient nurseries, which are usuaUy (in the Middle and Southern States) the most soUury and deeply shaded part of a cedar-swamp, or some inundated and almost inaccessible grove of swamp-oaks. In these places, or some contiguous part of the forest, near a pond or stream, the timorous and watchful flock pass away the day until the commencement of twilight, when the calls of hunger and the coolness of evening arouse the doling throng into life and activity. At this time, high in the air, the parem birds are seen saUying forth towards the neighboring marshes and strand of the sea in quest of food for themselves and their young; as they thus proceed in a marshalled rank at intervals they utter a sort of recognition call, like the guttural sound of the sylUble 'kwiA, uttered in so hollow and sepulchral a tone as almost to resemble the retchings of a vomitinp person. These venerable eyries of the Kwah Birds have beei rocupied from' the remotest period of time by about eighty to a hundred â pairs. When their ancient trees were levelled by the axe, they have been known to remove merely to some other quarter of the same swamp; and it U only when they have been long teased and plundered that they are ever known to abandon their ancient sUtions. Their greatest natural enemy is the Crow; and according to the relarion of Wilson, one of these heronries, near Thompson's Point, on the banks of the Dela- ware, was at length entirely abandoned through the persecu- tion of these sable enemies. Several breeding-haunts of the Kwah Bird
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