GRUS COMMUNIS. 57 
Srol72. %eo—Lae Halloula, Aleemay 1856) “HB. T.” 
From Mr. Tristram, 1858. 
Mr. Tristram’s note is “ taken at Halloula, a very local bird, but 
plentiful at Halloula, where [1] found no Common Coot. At Zana is 
only Common Coot. At Halloula and Fetzara the Crested.” 
[The Canon’s notes on this species are in ‘The Ibis’ for 1860 (pp. 157, 158). 
Neither Mr. Salvin nor Mr. Simpson ever saw Lulica cristata, to their 
knowledge, in Algeria; but they did not visit Halloula. | 
[§ 3173. One.—Lac Halloula, 1856. From Mr. Tristram, 
1858. 
Lot 245 at Mr. Stevens's rooms, 9 February, 1858. | 
GRUS COMMUNIS, Bechstein. 
THE CRANE. 
§ 3174. One.—From Mr. Green, 1852. 
§ 3175. Three —FK rom Dr. Frere, 1853. 
These, I find on reference to Dr. Frere’s book, were from Herr Brandt, 
the Hamburg dealer, but the Doctor has had others from M. Nager- 
Donazain. He does not know whence they come. ‘These four eggs 
are all of a different ground-colour, 
(In a contribution to ‘ The Ibis’ for 1859 (pp. 191-198), Mr. Wolley gave 
the results of his observations “‘ On the Breeding of the Crane (Grus cinerea) 
in Lapland.” Though written with his usual happy power, and abounding in 
masterly touches, I do not reprint it here, for nearly all the facts it records are 
contained in the extracts from his Egg-book given below, and these, noted 
almost at the time, naturally possess a greater freshness than the more 
considered ccmpusition. There is also the less need for its insertion here, 
since the greater part has been reproduced by Mr. Dresser (Birds of Europe, 
vii. pp. 346-350) and Mr. Saunders (Yarrell, Brit. Birds, ed. 4, iil. 
pp. 183-188). Though too late to procure Cranes’ eggs in his first summer, 
I believe that Mr. Wolley’s having ascertained their mode of breeding and 
the condition of their newly-hatched young caused him as much pleasure as 
any of the successes which he achieved in that year. Continental orni- 
thologists, with the exception of Naumann (Naturgeschichte der Vogel 
Deutschlands, ix. pp. 376-331), who gave a good and fairly circumstantial 
