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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 that county during the remarkable frost of 1739; 

 and the editor of the last 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 col- 

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

 desperate resistance. Mr. Selby refers to one killed in Ox- 

 fordshire in December, 1830, and Frederick Holme, Esq. 

 had the kindness to send me word that a Crane was shot 

 at Chimney-ford, on the Isis, in Oxfordshire, in December, 

 1831. Dr. Fleming 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 visitor 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. 



J. H. Gurney, Esq. has recorded the occurrence of a 

 Crane at Martham, in Norfolk, in the winter of 1849; 

 and Mr. Knox, in his Systematic Catalogue of the Birds 

 of Sussex, has included a notice of one killed at Pagham, 

 in October, 1854, which had also been reported to me by 

 letter from Wm. Borrer, Jun., Esq. 



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- 



