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interesting account of the young and nest of the 

 Crane ; one nest was found in a great boggy marsh 

 in Lapland : the nest was made of very small twigs, 

 mixed with long sedgy grass, altogether several 

 inches in depth and perhaps two feet across ; the 

 other nest was about the same size, nearly flat, made 

 chiefly of light coloured grass or hay loosely matted 

 together, scarcely more than two inches in depth and 

 raised only two or three inches from the general 

 level of the swamp. 



Of the food of the Crane Yarrell says that it is of 

 a more variable nature than is usual amongst 

 Waders generally. It will feed occasionally on grain 

 and aquatic plants ; at other times it makes a meal 

 of worms, reptiles and mollusca. 



With the exception of the soft parts, which, as I 

 did not see the bird in the flesh, I cannot quite 

 answer for, the description of Mr. Haddon's bird is 

 as follows : The head is yellowish rusty ; the neck 

 dark dusky, almost black, behind slightly freckled 

 with ash-grey, ash-grey in front; on the head and 

 the upper parts of the neck are a few white feathers ; 

 the lower part of the neck ash-grey all round ; the 

 back and scapulars are darkish ash-grey, rather 

 broadly margined with rusty, but the margins of the 

 feathers are much worn; wing-coverts ash-grey, 

 there is a narrow streak of grey along the shafts 

 both of these feathers and those of the back and 

 scapulars; some of the greater coverts are tipped 



