HIS NOTES OX THE LILFORD COLLECTION L>75 



history to a work entitled " Wild Spain," by 

 Messrs. Abel Chapman and W. Buck. 



' In conclusion of our round of inspection 

 at Lilford, we next come to what no doubt will 

 prove to ornithologists the plum of the collec- 

 tion, in an enclosure in the park behind the 

 house, known as the " Pinetum." Here we 

 have a pond with various species of ducks 

 and a pair of Crested Pelicans taking their 

 pleasure thereon, but the main interest centres 

 in the large collection of that very graceful 

 family — the Cranes. Till within a month ago 

 I w T as the proud possessor of specimens of all 

 the known species of this family save one- 

 the Wattled Crane of South Africa — but, alas ! 

 my three beautiful Stanley Cranes all drooped 

 and died within a week, leaving a lamentable gap 

 in the beautiful group. 



' The rarest of these Cranes is the Hooded 

 Crane from Japan {Grus monachus), and un- 

 fortunately the only individual of this species 

 that I have been able to obtain broke a leg- 

 last summer, but is in perfect health ; this is 

 not a very striking bird, either in colour or 

 size, when compared with other cranes. In my 



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