The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1844-05-10

lot, &c, with the other geese and will suffer
one 10 approach within step or two Of it.
II win not eat corn but seems 10 live upon
grsss and other heritage. Il does not stay
al the umo with the geese, but after being
,bsent a while seems anxious 10 get with
them again but has no apparent disposition
% leave lis new home.
10 reference 10 this strange visiier the
first question s, WHAT Is TTg And secondly
How CAME 1T HERB
AS 10 The "trhat is IT," known nothing,
have examined some works upon ornilho-
Iogy, particularly that Of the Edinburg En-
encyclopaedia, but find no account of It. /
have not had an opportunity Of consulting
The late works of Professor Audubon, but
hink il probable he will lell something
aboutii Its looks and actions are more like
he common domestic gander than any thing
else know Of, but from it, it is strikingly
dismilar in several particulars. II is eEi-
denily mild foul though tolerably tame.
AS to he 'hoiO il came here,'' think
that may be ACCOUNTED for with some reason
ableness, though by no means with satisfac-
Iion. The THEORY OF STORMS as recent
" developed by Prof Espey and others leave
il quite probable if not nearly certain that
the one above spoken of had travelled thou
sands Of miles before il reached here. II
most probably commenced in the Pacific
Ocean and struck off its strait line Of march
across the continent, travelling at the rate
probably Of thousand or two miles a day.
The bird got separated from its fellows in
this hurricane, far south west of here and
trGoelIed in the storm to this place. The
storm may have ragged with far greater Vio-
lencc, at distance than in this county,
After having travelled from California on
the Pacific, and here getting little out of
the main current, as before observed, and
being tired Of its aerial voyage, sought for
resting place. Our little flock of geese,
which by the way are nearly all gaRders and
so resembling it the more, were the first ami
mails it had seen like its fellows. II sought
their company; despairs of ever getting
back to its own far distant island, likes to
play in the YazoO, for its pretty river, and
has concluded TO spend its days in the rural
seclusion of this way, way off north eastern
World.
Now sir, If you or any Of your curious
friends can FIX he shOv it came here'' any
better than that, would be glad to see il
done. And as to the "tDhat Is it' would
be glad to be informed it the scientific and
celebrated American Ornithoogist or any
one else can give correct Information.
have understood there is complete sci Of
audubon in your town.
R ABBEY.
Boston Plantation, May, i, 1914.
P. 8. Since writing the above have had
the pleasure Of assisting in an examination
Of Audibon's plates. and contrary to my ex-
pectation, my bird is not there. am snIl
more confined in the belief that its home
is IN the Pacific Ocean. and that il came in
the storm from far distant country to this
place. II Is from country uninhGbited By
man, and think, most probably, has seen
the Sandwich Islands in the last few days.
was extremely grati6ed at having an
opportunity of consulting Audibon's plates
in reference to this matter. ] visited Cap
ain Hughes in company with friend fol
this purpose where we were politely furnish
eG, by him, with the most splendid and mag.
Inifcent display Of illustrative ornilhOlogy
have ever seen. ] am told that our friene
Capt. H. is the only man in the state per
haps, who has had the taste and liberali,y o
patronising the whole work of the highly
gifted and indefatigable ornilhologist o
America. Learned gentlemen from towr
and elsewhere (my friend Capt. Hughes o
the number Of course) have paid their res
poets, personally, TO my beautiful whit,
storm voyager Of the Pacific. And now sir
allow me to add, that as claim The higl
preTogative Of giving name to this lon,
representative of the far of 'seG grit isle,
| do hereby, of myself, without the know
ledge or consent of any other person, chris
ten, it ''THE STRANGER OF THE STORM"
If not prevented by some accidental o
uncomfortable circumstance, il is my inten
ton to take the earliest opportunity Of pre-
senting this beautiful emigrant, through M
friend Capt. Hughes, to MT. Audubon o
New York. r. A.