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of amusement. The Common Crane is said to behave in a similar 

 manner, though more rarely. 



The Demoiselle-Crane makes little or no nest, but deposits its 

 eggs, usually two in number, in a depression in the ground, 

 surrounding them with small stones. The eggs are not unlike those 

 of the Common Crane, but rather smaller. 



Loche includes the Balearic Crane {Balearica pavonina) among 

 the birds of Algeria, as an accidental visitor to that country (Expl. 

 Scient. Alg. Ois. ii. p. 123). I know of no instance of its having been 

 met with in Tunisia, although, I may observe, that Blanc has more 

 than once, from a distance, seen Cranes on the small Island of Curiat, 

 off the East Tunisian coast, which seemed to be unlike either the 

 Common or the Demoiselle-Crane. 



