PtACE. 



:biiown and great crake= 443 



Brown and afh-colored Crane, EJw. 133.^ — Grus Canadenfis, Lin. SjJI. 234.-^ l'\<^' Browr 



Toqiiil Coyot!, Fernandez, 44 — Latham, iii. CranE. 



La Grue brune, De Buff on, vii. 310. — Lev. Mus. 



With a duflcy bill, near four inches long : crowii red and naked: 

 cheeks and throat white ; hind part of the head and whole 

 neck cinereous; reft of the plumage of the fame color, tinged with 

 pale ruft : primaries black, fhafts white ; the row of feathers in- 

 cumbent on them light afh : tertials brown with elegant loofe webs, 

 incurvated, and extending beyond the ends of the primaries : tail 

 -cinereous : legs black. Length three feet three. Extent three, Sieb. 



five. Weight feven pounds and a half. 



This fpecies is found in Mexico ; but migrates into the north to 

 breed. About the middle of February they are feen in their flight 

 over the JerfieSy fleering northerly ; and in the fpfing fome make a 

 fhort halt there "^. They arrive in May about Severn river in 

 Hudjon's Bay. Frequent lakes and ponds. Feed on fifh and infedtsi, 

 Hatch two young j and retire fouthward in autumn f. I muft ob- " 

 ferve, that they formerly made a halt in the Hurons country, at the 

 feafon in which the Indians fet their jnaiz ; and again on their return 

 from the north, when the harveft was ready, in order to feed on the 

 grain. The Indians, at thofe times, were ufed to fhoot them with 

 arrows headed with ftone ; for Theodat J, my authority, made his 

 'remarks in that country in the beginning of the laft century. 



Largeft crefted Heron, Catejby, App. 10.— Ardea Herodias, i/a. Sjft. ,j j. GREAtb 



Le grand Heron d'Amerique, DeBuffon, vii. 385. — Latham, \u. 



With a bill eight inches long : on the hind part of the neck a 

 ' long creft of flender herring-bone feathers, of a brown color, to 

 *be erefted at pleafure : the head, neck, and whole of the body, brown, 



* Kalm, ii. 72. f P^'- 1'ranf. Ixii. 409. J As quoted by Be Buffom 



3 L 2 paleft 



