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which grew in the same marsh, near the nest. Some of the 

 pieces had been pulled up by the roots. It was twenty-seven 

 inches across, and three or four inches in thickness, perfectly 

 flat ; dripping wet in its lowest layers. The birds sailed over 

 our heads to another part of the marsh, where I examined them 

 with my glass. 



It will be deduced from what I have stated that the Crane in 

 Lapland is not gregarious when it has once arrived at its sum- 

 mer quarters ; that as soon as it reaches its breeding-place, for 

 the most part as soon as the snow is mainly off the ground, it 

 repairs its simple nest, and lays its two eggs ; for two were in the 

 four nests that have occurred to me, and two generally say those 

 few natives who know anything about the subject. The nest is 

 neither large nor concealed. The birds are silent towards in- 

 truders on the eggs. The young run probably as soon as, or 

 soon after, they are hatched, and by some means are led or con- 

 veyed to a great distance by their parents after having been dis- 

 turbed. They have a chestnut or tawny down ; no feathers visible 

 in their wings for some time. In Lapland, and as far as I have 

 heard, in Sweden and Finland generally, the Crane never breeds 

 otherwise than on the ground. It seems not to visit Norway. 



April 4, 1859, Beeston, Nottingham. 



XXI. — Recent Ornithological Publications. 

 1. English Publications. 



The correspondent who furnished us with the review of Mr. 

 Breeds 'Birds of Europe not observed in the British Isles,' 

 published in our first Number, begs us to insert his apologies to 

 that gentleman for having accidentally misquoted his words. 

 In the extract given at page 96 of ' The Ibis ' from Mr. Breeds 

 account of Aquila pennata (Birds of Europe, page 70), the word 

 "not'' was unintentionally inserted. Four additional parts of 

 this book have now appeared ; and we hope to be able to per- 

 suade our correspondent to continue his able criticisms. But 

 in the meanwhile we cannot avoid noticing a point in which we 

 consider Mr. Bree in error. With reference to what he calls the 

 " Azure-winged Magpie," it has now long been known that the 



