. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . doubt; and should you,as I have done, repeatedly visit our broad lakes, or the great rivers just men-tioned, you would find there, at particular seasons, not only this species, butseveral others, as well as various kinds of Terns, but none of the genusLestris. Lake Erie supplies with food the Lanes marinus, L. argentatus,L. atricilla, and some others, as well as the Great, the Arctic, the Roseate,and the Black Terns, all of which pass at times over to the Ohio, and fromthence to the ocean. During these inl
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . doubt; and should you,as I have done, repeatedly visit our broad lakes, or the great rivers just men-tioned, you would find there, at particular seasons, not only this species, butseveral others, as well as various kinds of Terns, but none of the genusLestris. Lake Erie supplies with food the Lanes marinus, L. argentatus,L. atricilla, and some others, as well as the Great, the Arctic, the Roseate,and the Black Terns, all of which pass at times over to the Ohio, and fromthence to the ocean. During these inland movements, the birds seem to bepeculiarly attracted by certain places, at which they remain for , at the Falls of the Ohio, some species remain for weeks, and wherevermuch shipping occurs on that river or the Mississippi, Gulls are sure to beseen gleaning the garbage that has been thrown overboard, or seizing suchfishes as rise incautiously to the surface of the water. In the months ofSeptember and October, Gulls and Terns might almost be said to abound on <N? 4 O :. THE COMMON AMERICAN GULL. 153 our great streams, and many return thither during the spring months on theirway northward. Nay, to some species of Tern, the beautiful sand-bars androcky beaches that occur here and there, are so attractive as to induce a fewto remain and breed there. This is especially the case with the Black Terns,some of which rear their young by the rapids of the Ohio below Louisville,amidst the roaring sounds of which may be heard their shrill and continuedcries. You must not suppose, however, that all the Gulls which migrate in thatcountry take the same route; for thousands follow the sinuosities of ourAtlantic coast, some of them perhaps proceeding as far south in that direc-tion as those which follow our rivers. My opinion is, that the feebler indi-viduals of the different species follow the inland route, while the older andmore hardy birds keep along the shores of the ocean.
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