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Tide Crane. Grus. 



-Numb. LXV. 



ITS Length from the point of the Bill to the End of the Tail is al^ 

 -*■ moft five Foot; its Weight fometimes ten Pounds; its Bill is ftreight, 

 fharp pointed, of a greenifh Colour, near four Inches long, compreffed fide 

 ways ; its Tongue broad and horny at the Tip ; the Top of the Head 

 dark brown inclining to black, on the back of the Head is a Space or 

 Bed of thin-fet Hairs of a red Colour: the Chin and under fide of the 

 Neck are of a dusky or blackiili Hue ; the reft of the Head and Neck 

 Afh-colour, as is alfo the whole Bird excepting the quill Feathers of 

 the Wings ; the Tail is fiiort, and compofed of twelve Feathers all 

 cinereous with black Tips, when fpread, making a round Circumference. 



The Wings are very large, the quill Feathers are in Number twenty 

 :four, the leffer of which from black incline to ruffet. 



The Legs are black, bare of Feathers for a hand's Breadth above the 

 Knees ; the Toes dark brown and very long ; the lower Joint of the 

 ■outmoft and middle Toe conneded by a thick Membrane. 



That which is moft rare, and efpecially remarkable in this Bird, is 

 the conformation of the Windpipe; for entring far into the Breaft-bone 

 which hath a great Cavity within to receive it, being there thrice re- 

 .fleded goes out again at the fame Hole and fo turns down to the Lungs. 



The blind Guts are five Inches long: the Stomach or Gizzard muf- 

 culous as in granivorous Birds ; the Flefli is very favory and well-tafted, 

 not to fay delicate. They often come to us in E7igla7id^ efpecially in 

 the Fen-Countries in L,i7tcohJhire and CambridgeJJjire^ where there are 

 great Flocks of them; but whether they breed in EiJgland or nct^ is not 

 determined. Cranes diifer from Her?iSy in that the Claw of the middle 

 Toe is not ferrateas in Hems', fecondly, in Bignefs, wherein they ex- 

 ceed them; thirdly, in having a fhorter Bill; and fourthly, a m.ufculous 

 Stomach or Gizzard : fifthly, two Appendices or blind Guts, whereas 

 Herns hsiVQ but one; fixthly, in the ftrange Revolution of the Wind- 

 pipe within. 



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