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THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



4. The G-RALLATOKES include the Herons and Cranes (fig. 

 56), which wade into streams and catch fish ; these are fur- 

 nished with long legs, neck, and beak, and when they have 

 gone into the water as far as their long legs permit, they stand 



FIG. 56. 1, IIEROX (Ardea cinerea) ; 2, CRANE (Megaloruis einerea). 



still and wait with the head resting on the shoulders and the 

 eyes fixed on the stream, till an unlucky fish approaches 

 near enough, when with a quick stroke they dart at it, and 

 catch it ; they are very picturesque objects, standing on 

 one leg (as they commonly do) in some lonely pool or stream. 



