206 BIRDS OF LANCASHIRE. 



ORDEK ALECTORIDES. 



FAMILY GEUID^.— GENUS GRUS. 



CEANE. 



Grus communis, Bechstein. 



In the Zoologist for 1865, Mr. C. W. Devis says that 

 a good specimen was killed in May (exact date not 

 ascertained) in the neighbourhood of Stretford. I have 

 not been able to gather any confirmation of this, but a 

 clear case has been made out for the admission of the 

 bird to the Lancashire list by Mr. E. Milne-Eedhead, 

 r.L.S., of Bolton-by-Bowland. This gentleman, on 

 August 25th, 1884, about 4 p.m., saw — with the naked 

 eye and also through a glass — two Cranes flying as 

 from W.N.W. to S.S.E. ; and he states that having 

 often observed them in Germany and other places, he is 

 very familiar with the appearance of the species. The 

 weather was noted by him as brilliantly fine and clear, 

 air cooler, bar. 29 '55, there having been a prevalence 

 of easterly winds for some time before. [Cf. E. J. 

 Howard, ZooJ., 1884, pp. 470-471.— Ed.] 



FAMILY OTIDID.E.— GENUS OTIS. 



LITTLE BUSTAED. 



Otis tetrax, Linngeus. 



An immature male, killed at Heaton about 1840, is 

 now in the possession of Mr. W. Fitzherbert Brock- 



