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districts where large morasses occur, though it does so 

 as far north as Lapland and Finland in Europe ; the 

 nest is a large mass of aquatic vegetation, while the 

 two or three big eggs are of a curious greenish grey 

 colour with indistinct reddish brown markings. Cranes 

 fly magnificently, and from olden times have been signs 



Common Crane 



of the season on their migration to and from the south, 

 when they fly at enormous heights ; the food consists 

 of almost any kind of vegetable substance to be found 

 on the ground — ^roots, fruits, herbage, and the Uke, with 

 insects and doubtless frogs and small mammals. The 

 note is loud and trumpeting. In both sexes the colour 



