34 HERON. 



Circle. In Kamtscbatka they are only on the Southern Promontory ;* 

 are migratory, returning north to breed in the spring, and generally 

 choosing the same places occupied by them the season before, f In 

 the winter, inhabit the warmer regions, as Egypt, Aleppo,§ India, 

 &c. ; likewise met with at the Cape of Good Hope, changing place 

 with the season. In their migrations often fly so high as not to be 

 visible, their passing only known by the noise they make, being 

 louder than any other bird.|| In Spain inhabit the marshes on the 

 sides of the Rivers Palmonas and Guadaranque in the summer, 

 departing again in winter. In France are seen in spring and autumn, 

 but for the most part, are only passengers. Not indigenous to Rome, 

 as Horace mentions " Advenam Gruem."** Willughby says, " they 

 " come often to us in England ; and in the fenny countries in Lincoln- 

 " shire and Cambridgeshire there are great flocks of them," ft though 

 at present they are not more known there than in other parts of the 

 kingdom : they were used at table here as early as the Norman 

 Conquest, J J and at various intervals between that, and the time 

 of King Henry VIII.; the citizens of London, presenting hiin, 

 among other things, with twelve Cranes. §§ In 1500, three living 

 ones were valued at five shillings, |||| and twelve years after, they 

 fetched one shilling and four-pence each when dead ;|||||| but at the 



* Arct. Zool. One of the supposed reasons was the want of frogs, toads, and serpents; 

 none being found in Kamtschatka, — Hist. Kamtsckatka. They have, however, plenty of 

 lizards. f Amaen. ac. iv. 589. 



§ Riiss. Alepp. p. 69. 



|| Supposed to arise from the singular conformation of the windpipe, entering far into 

 the bone, which has a great cavity to receive it, and being there thrice reflected, goes out 

 again at the same hole, and so turns down to the lungs. — Will. 274. pi. -18. The above 

 structure not very unlike that of the Parraqua Pheasant. 



** Epod. ii. 1. 39. — Willughby met with them at Rome, in the winter season. 



■f-f Sometime, of course, prior to 1678, when his book was written. 



XX Dugd. Baron, i. p. 109. §§ Hall. Chron. fol. clxv. 



Illl Gent. Mag. 1768. 259. An Appraismt. Temp. vii. of Thos. Kebell. 

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