{Whistlers.}
These Are Called Whistlers, From The Whistling Noise They Make, As They Fly.
{Black-Flusterers, or Bald-Coot.}
Black Flusterers; some call these Old Wives.
They are as black as Ink.
The Cocks have white Faces. They always remain in the midst of Rivers,
and feed upon drift Grass, Carnels or Sea-Nettles. They are the fattest Fowl
I ever saw, and sometimes so heavy with Flesh, that they cannot rise
out of the Water. They make an odd sort of Noise when they fly.
What Meat they are, I could never learn. Some call these the great bald Coot.
{Turkeys.}
The wild Turkeys I should have spoken of, when I treated of the Land-Fowl.
There are great Flocks of these in Carolina. I have seen about five hundred
in a Flock; some of them are very large. I never weigh'd any myself,
but have been inform'd of one that weigh'd near sixty Pound Weight.
I have seen half a Turkey feed eight hungry Men two Meals.
Sometimes the wild breed with the tame ones, which, they reckon,
makes them very hardy, as I believe it must. I see no manner of Difference
betwixt the wild Turkeys and the tame ones; only the wild are ever
of one Colour, (viz.) a dark gray, or brown, and are excellent Food.
They feed on Acorns, Huckle-Berries, and many other sorts of Berries
that Carolina affords. The Eggs taken from the Nest, and hatch'd
under a Hen, will yet retain a wild Nature, and commonly leave you,
and run wild at last, and will never be got into a House to roost,
but always pearch on some high Tree, hard-by the House,
and separate themselves from the tame sort, although (at the same time)
they tread and breed together.
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