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interesting account of the young and nest of the 
Crane; one nest was found in a great boggy marsh 
in Lapland: the nest was made of very small twigs, 
mixed with long sedgy grass, altogether several 
inches in depth and perhaps two feet across; the 
other nest was about the same size, nearly flat, made 
chiefly of light coloured grass or hay loosely matted 
together, scarcely more than two inches in depth and 
raised only two or three inches from the general 
level of the swamp. 
Of the food of the Crane Yarrell says that it is of 
a more variable nature than is usual amongst 
Waders generally. It will feed occasionally on grain 
and aquatic plants; at other times it makes a meal 
of worms, reptiles and mollusca. 
With the exception of the soft parts, which, as I 
did not see the bird in the flesh, I cannot quite 
answer for, the description of Mr. Haddon’s bird is 
as follows :—The head is yellowish rusty; the neck 
- dark dusky, almost black, behind shghtly freckled 
with ash-grey, ash-grey in front; on the head and 
the upper parts of the neck are a few white feathers: 
the lower part of the neck ash-grey all round; the 
back and scapulars are darkish ash-grey, rather 
broadly margined with rusty, but the margins of the 
feathers are much worn; wing-coyerts ash-grey,— 
there is a narrow streak of grey along the shafts 
both of these feathers and those of the back and 
Scapulars; some of the greater coverts are tipped 
