490 A P P E N D I X. 



back, and lefier coverts of the wings are of a rofe 

 color, mixed with a few fpots of black : the legs of a 

 dirty orange color. 



This bird is found in Lapland, Italy and Syria. A- 

 boUt Aleppo it is called the tociifl \ird, poffibly frotp 

 its food; and appears there only in fummer*. In 

 Italy it is ftyled the fea- flare ; and as Aldrovandus fays, 

 frequents heaps of dung-f. And Mr. Ekmarck^ in- 

 forms us, that it refides in Lapland, never paffing 

 beyond the limits of that frozen region. We have 

 mentioned very oppofue climes, but believe it to be 

 a fcarce bird in all, at left in Europe, 



IV. The CRANE. Tab. 15. 



Le Grue. Belon. av. 187. tab. 33. 



Grus. Gefner av. 528. Kranich, Rram. 345. 



h Crane. Turner. Ardea Grus. Lin.fyji. 234. 



Gru, Grua. Aldr. av. iii. 132. Trana. Faun. Suee.fp. 161. 



Wil. orn. z~ja~' Danis Trane. Brunnicb. 



Rail fyn. a<v. 95. Br. Zool. 1 18. 



La Grue. Brijjln av. 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 in his 

 time, they were found during the winter in large 

 flocks in Lincoln/hire and Cambridge/Jure : but on the 

 ftrictefl enquiry we learn, that at prefent the inhabi- 

 tants of thofe counties are entirely unacquainted with 



• RuJfeTs hijl. Alep. 70. 



t Aldr. av.ii. 283. 



\ Migr. av. Aman. acad. iv. 504, 



them; 



