Cuass II. CRANE HERON. 
nion on each wing; they are unwebbed, and 
finely curled at the ends, which the birds have 
power to erect or depress ; when depressed they 
hang over and cover the tail. Gesner tells us, 
that these feathers used in his time to be set in 
gold, and worn as ornaments in caps. Though 
this species seems to have forsaken these islands 
at present, yet it was formerly not uncommon, 
as we find in /Villughby, p. 52. that there was 
a penalty of twenty-pence for destroying an egg 
of this bird; and Jurner relates, that he has 
very often seen their young in our marshes. 
Marsigl* says, that the crane lays two eggs 
like those of a goose, but of a bluish color. 
* Mist. Danub. v.p. 8. 
