wwe COMMON CRANE. 
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Grus communis, Bechstein. 
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Vernacular Names.—[Kooroonch, Koorch, (Hindee), VV. W. Provinces; Kul- 
lung, (Oordoo) Upper Ludia; Kallam, Deccan ; Kulungi, (Telegu) ; Wainu, 
Munipur.| 
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WINTER migrant to our Empire, the range of the 
Common Crane has yet to be accurately defined. It 
has been recorded from most of the districts of the 
Deccan, becoming rarer towards the south. How 
much further south it wanders I have been unable 
to ascertain. Mr. Albert Theobald seems never to 
have met with it anywhere in the Madras Districts 
south of Mysore, but Major Campbell, of the 26th M. N. I, 
writes from Quilon, that it is not uncommon in Travancore. 
It has never as yet, I believe, been recorded from Ceylon. 
Northwards it extends through the northern portions, at any 
rate of the Nizam’s Dominions, Khandesh, Berar, the Central 
Provinces, Guzerat, the Central India Agency, Cutch, Kathiawar, 
Sind, Rajputana, the North-West Provinces and Oudh and the 
Punjab, being far more common towards the north than towards 
the south of this vast tract. On the east I have no record 
of its occurrence south of the Mahanadi. North of this it is 
found in the Tributary Mahals, Chota Nagpur, and the whole of 
Western Bengal and Behar. I donot know whether it occurs 
in the deltaic districts of Bengal, but it is common in the 
Sikhim Terai and the Duars, and probably extends up to the 
easternmost extremity of the valley of Assam, as Col, Gra- 
ham writes that it is very common in the Darrang and Lakhim- 
pur Districts. South and east of the Brahmaputra again I 
have no record of its occurrence ;* but Mason, whether on any 
sufficient grounds or not I cannot say, includes it without remark 
in his list of the Birds of Burma. 
Outside our limits it may be broadly said to occur through- 
out Europe right up to the North Cape, and Northern Africa as 
* Mr. Inglis of Dilkoosha, Cachar, tells me that in all the years he has been 
there, sportsman and somewhat of an ornithologist to boot as he is, he has never 
seen or heard of a Crane in that district. 
+ Mr. Oates has never met with it in Pegu. 
