386 3 THE CRANE. . 
feathers being long and silken, and hanging over the wings. The wings, 
under surface, and tail are black, and the feathers of the tail are soft and 
short. 
ALTHOUGH in former days tolerably common in England, the CRANE has 
now, with the bustard, almost disappeared from this land, a single specimen 
being seen at very long and increasing intervals. In some parts of England 
and Ireland the popular name of the heron is the Crane, so that the occasional 
reports which sometimes find admission into local newspapers respecting the 
Crane have often reference, not to that bird, but to the heron. 
THE GOLDEN-BREASTED TRUMPETER. —(Psophia crepuans.) 
The Crane makes its nest mostly on marshy ground, placing it among 
osiers, reeds, or the heavy vegetation which generally flourishes in such 
localities. Sometimes, however, it prefers more elevated situations, and will 
make its nest on the summit of an old deserted ruin. The eggs are two in 
number, and their colour is light olive, covered with dashes of a deeper hue 
and brown. The well-known plumes of the Crane are the elongated tertials, 
with their long drooping loose webs, which, when on the wings of the bird, 
reach beyond the primaries. 
