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egg of a Crane or a Bustard taken and destroyed. Smith, 

 in his History of the County of Cork, vol. ii. p. 342, says the 

 Crane was seen in tliat county during the remarkabhe frost of 

 1739 ; and the editor of the hist edition of Pennant's British 

 Zoology, mentions four instances of the occurrence of the 

 Crane within his memory. 



Dr. Edward Moore, in his Catalogue of the Wading 

 Birds of Devonshire, says a fine specimen of the Crane was 

 shot in September 1826 in the parish of Buckland Mona- 

 chorum, near Plymouth, which is now in Mr. Drew's collec- 

 tion ; it was wounded in the wing, and made a most desperate 

 resistance. Mr. Selby refers to one killed in Oxfordshire in 

 December 1880, and Frederick Holme, Esq. had the kind- 

 ness to send me word that a Crane was shot at Chimney- ford, 

 on the Isis, in Oxfordshire, in December 1831. Dr. Flem- 

 ing mentions that a small flock appeared, during harvest in 

 1807, in Tingwall, Zetland, as he was informed by the Rev. 

 John Turnbull, the worthy minister- of the parish, who 

 added, that they fed on grain. Mr. Robert Dunn, in his 

 Ornithologist's Guide to Orkney and Shetland, says, that 

 this bird is an occasional visiter in severe winters or stormy 

 weather, and that two examples were shot in Shetland 

 between his first visit in March 1831, and the following 

 spring. 



M. Nilsson mentions that the Crane is seen in Sweden 

 in spring and autumn, and that it goes to the marshes of 

 Scania to breed ; it is also said to breed in Norway, which 

 has been confirmed to me by Richard Dan, Esq. ; and Lin- 

 naeus, in his Tour, mentions their appearance in Lapland. 

 Pennant says they also visit Russia and Siberia. Mr. Gould 

 says, " Flocks of these birds are seen at stated times in 

 France and Germany, passing northwards and southwards, as 

 the season may be, in marshalled order, high in the air, their 



