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also^ not to have occurred on the mainland of Scotland for a 
long period ; but has, within the present century, been met with 
in the Shetland islands.* In Smitlds History of the county of 
Waterford, published in the year 1745, the following appears : — 
^^The crane [Grus)j which is a. bird of passage. During the 
great frost of 1739 some few cranes were seen in this county ; but 
not since or before in any personas memory.'’^ The same author, 
in his History of the comity of Cork, published in 1749, remarks 
that — The crane was seen in this county during the remarkable 
frost in 1739 ; but they do not breed wdth us."’^ 
In March 1834 Mr. Glennon, bird preserver, informed me that 
a crane, then in the museum of the Eoyal Dublin Society, and 
seen by him in a fresh state, was shot in the county of Galway 
about twenty-five years previously. By letter from Eichard Chute, 
Esq., written in 1846, I was assured that ^^a crane was shot in 
Tralee bay, about twenty years ago, by the Eev. John Chute, now 
rector of Eoscommon."’'’ My correspondent, though but young at 
the time, saw the bird : — he states, on the additional authority of 
the shooters and others, that it was unquestionably the Grus 
cinerea. 
This species winters in Africa ; and annually migrates to 
Scandinavia, and other northern countries, for the purpose of 
breeding. 
* Dr. Flenimg remarks that “ A small flock appeared during harvest in 1807, in 
Tingwall, Zetland, as I was informed by the Rev. John Turnbull,” (Hist. Brit. Anim. 
p. 97). Mr. Dunn, who has written an "‘Ornithologist’s Guide to Orkney and 
Shetland,” was told that two cranes had been shot in the latter group of islands 
between the spring of 1831 and 1832 (p. 84). Mr. J. Wolley gives a full account 
of one which frequented Shetland for three or four months in the summer and 
autumn of 1848. He adds (in Nov. 1848) that “ Several years since one was shot 
in South Ronaldsha, one of the Orkneys,” (Zoologist, Feb. 1849, p. 2353), 
