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liberated many on his estates in Ireland, but in two 

 years the breed was lost." 



Ohs. — Another species, known as the Andalusian 

 Hemipode, Turnix sylvatica (Desfontaines), a native 

 of Southern Spain and Barbary, is recorded to have 

 been met with at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, 

 Oct. 29, 1844 (Zool, 1845, p. 872, and 1849, p. 

 2599), as well as at Fartown, near Huddersfield, 

 April 7, 1865 (Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1866, p. 

 210). But as this bird is not migratory in its 

 habits, its introduction must have been effected 

 by human agency. 



Order VII. ALECTORIDES 

 Fam. GRUID^. 



CRANE. Grus cinerea, Bechstein. PI. 26, figs. 10, 10a. 

 Length, 36 in. ; wing, 22 in. ; tarsus, 9-5 in. 



The Crane was at one time resident in England, 

 and its bones are still found in our fens. Its eggs 

 were for some centuries protected by statute. In 

 the time of King John this bird was sufficiently 

 common in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire for 

 the king to capture as many as seven and nine in 

 one day with gerfalcons. The details are given in 

 my "Essays on Sport and Nat. Hist.," 1883 (pp. 

 77-78). Turner in his Avium Historia, 1544, 

 states that he had often seen the young ones 

 — in locis palustrihus earum pipiones swpissime 

 vidi. Leslie also in 1578 wrote of this bird as 



