Urbana Union

Near the Coppermine River, which falls into Hudson's Bay, live a tribe of Indians, who traverse the immense dreary solitudes that surround them, in pursuit of deer or other game, from which they derive their sole subsistence. The animals, however, taught by experience to shun the haunts of men, and instinctively to conceal themselves in the most sequestered spots, would with difficulty be discovered, were it not for one of the winged tribe, of the owl genus, called the Alarm Bird.

No sooner does this bird descry man or beast: than it directs its flight towards them, and hovering over them, forms gyrations round their head. Should two objects at once arrest its attention, it flies from one to the other alternately, with a loud screaming, resembling the crying of a child: 'and in this manner it will follow travelers, or attend a herd of deer, for the space of a day together.