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was obtained by W. Berry, Esq., at Staplehurst, in 

 Kent, and at Bethersden by Captain J. D. Cameron. 

 There is a male and female, nest and eight eggs, in 

 the Maidstone Museum, obtained at Hollingbourne, in 

 Kent, by Mr. J. Coveney, and a male from Leeds, 

 February 22, 1887, obtained by Mr. M. W. Martin. 



Mr. T. Hepburn writes, on May 13, 1900 : " Found two 

 nests in the reeds surrounding a pool of water on the 

 marsh near Dungeness ; two eggs in one and eight in 

 the other. In both instances the eggs were quite fresh." 



Specimens were procured in the Orlestone district in 

 January, 1907. 



Family GRUID^. 



Genus GRUS, Bechstein. 



CEANE. 



Grus griis (Liniic^us). S.N., I, p. 234 (1766). 



There is sufficient evidence from the subjoined par- 

 ticulars, culled from the last edition of Yarrell's British 

 Birds, to confirm the existence of the Crane in this 

 county, viz. : " Though at the present time only an 

 occasional and rare visitor to the British Islands, the 

 Crane was formerly much more frequent. In a letter 

 addressed to Boniface, Bishop of Mayence, who died 

 in 755, the Saxon King Ethelbert requested him to 

 send over two Falcons suitable for flying at the Crane 

 in Kent, i.e., Gyrfalcons." 



The only other record is that of the Eev. J. Pemberton 

 Bartlett, who, writing in 1844, states that it " has been 

 seen in Eomney Marsh." This statement is made without, 

 data. 



