Identifier: annualreportof6189919newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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t flies only a short distanceand that slowly, with legs dangling as if about to alight. The less the depth ofwater on its feeding grounds the more difficult it is to flush the bird, for it prefersto run about over the floating and standing vegetation, on which it is quite as muchat home as on the ground. When undisturbed it walks or runs with tail conspicu-ously erect, indifferently on the ground, on the lily-pads, on floating reeds or a log,often with rapid jerks of head and tail ; but if hard, pressed or wounded it takes tothe water, diving readily, even for a short time clinging to the roots below thesurface, and, when forced to breathe, coming up beneath a mass of floating vegeta-tion, there to hide with only the bill thrust out of water. It is, however, veryinquisitive, and any unusual discontinued sound, as of a stone cast among the reeds,or a person walking, will cause it cautiously to investigate. In the seclusion of its reedy home, during May or June, the Sora makes its nest.
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J < 0 <u < z< N o:0 „ FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 493 usually in some dense tussock, or in the grass, safe above the water. It is buta loose platform or mass of rushes and grass, though sometimes, either by reasonof the broken down vegetation round about it, or the birds intent it is more or lesscompletely overarched. The seven to fourteen eggs have a pale drab ground colorand markings of reddish brown. The young are covered with dull black down, andhave a strange looking tuft of orange-colored bristles on the throat ; they runabout with their mother soon after hatching.

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