A P P E N D I X. 629 



WATER FOWL. 



VI. The C R A N E. 



Le Grue. Belcn a<v. 187. tah. 33. 



Grus. Gefner av. 528. Kranich. Kram. 345. 



A Crane. Turner. Kranich. Frifeh, it. 194. 



Gru, Grua. Aldr. av. III. Ardea Grus, Lin. fyft. 234? 



132. Trana. Faun. Suec. fp. l6i» 



Wil. orn. 274. panis Trane. Brunnicb, 



Raii fyn. a<v. 95. Br. Zool. 1 18, 

 La Grue. Brijjon a<v. V. 374. 



THIS fpecies was placed, in the folio edition 

 of the Zoology, among the Britijh birds, on 

 the authority of Mr. Ray ; who informs us, that ii> 

 his time, they were found during the winter in 

 large flocks in Lincolnfmre and Cambridge/hire : but 

 on the ftricteft enquiry we learn, that at prefent the 

 inhabitants of thofe counties are fcarcely acquaint- 

 ed with them •, we therefore conclude, that thefe 

 birds have forfaken our ifland. A fmgle bird 

 was killed near Cambridge about three years ago 9 

 and is the only in fiance I ever knew of the crane 

 being feen in this ifland in our time. They were for- 

 merly in high efteem at our tables, for the delicacy 

 of their fleih -, for they feed only on grain, herbsj, 

 or infe&s ; fo have nothing of the ranknefs of the 

 pifcivorous birds of this genus. 



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