THE ZooLoGist—APRIL, 1872. 8003 
before appeared in English costume, but whether this be the case 
or no it is far too interesting to be omitted, and must raise the 
crane intellect in our estimation. My own limited experience of 
Hereford and Welsh bulls would not lead me to suspect the breast 
of a bull to harbour such a feeling of friendship as is here 
described ; moreover the voice of those bulls with which I have made 
more particular acquaintance is shrill, thin, and whistling, and 
bears exactly the same relation to the sonorous low of a cow as 
the squeaking of a drake to the loud quack of a duck: I never 
recollect hearing “ the loud bass voice of a bull.” 
“<The extraordinary cleverness and trustful character of my young 
cranes,’ writes Von Seyffertitz to my father, ‘have reached such a degree of 
cultivation that they engage the attention and awake the astonishment of 
all who see them. Ina very short time they not only lost all fear of man 
and domestic animals, but even sought the- companionship of the former. 
They knew exactly all the houses in the place wherever the inhabitants 
had once given them anything, and never omitted to pay them a daily visit. 
Without the slightest timidity they entered the lower rooms of our house, 
often remaining there some time and feeding out of the same dish with a 
very large pointer. I fed them three times a day, and they were thoroughly 
aware when this took place; they arrived at the proper time and announced 
themselves by screaming. If the time seemed too long they marched into 
the kitchen and waited by the fire until their dinner was ready. They 
would accompany me and others in our walks, following us like dogs; some- 
times, taking a flight, they gambolled about in the air, alighting occasionally, 
and then continued to accompany us. It was a pleasure to have these 
charming creatures about us.’ 
“ Onie of these two birds lost its life through an unlucky accident, so that 
the male of the pair only remained. Von Seyffertitz relates the following 
of the survivor :—‘ During the winter my lonely crane had become not only 
more beautiful, but had greatly improved in intelligence. His bearing had 
become more dignified, his manners and ways more droll, and his cleverness 
increased. He had got over the loss of his companion and accustomed to 
solitude, only it appeared to him necessary to return to the business of 
active life. As it was out of my power to replace the loss he had sustained 
by another of his own species, he helped himself: he chose a fresh com- 
panion, with whom he contracted a new friendship, which still exists. You 
will hardly imagine the one he chose among the many creatures surrounding 
him ; it was none other than a bull on our estate. 
“*How and from what reason the friendship sprang I cannot exactly 
make out, though it appears to me that the bull’s loud bass voice produced 
