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ILLUSTRATIONS OF FOREIGN OOLOGY. 
details were obtained from the native gentleman who owned them, 
and may, we believe, be fully trusted; but with regard to the 
colour of the eges, he had never looked at them.” 
Mr. Jerdon quotes from Mr. Elliot’s notes the following excellent 
observations, chiefly made in Guzret, the Saras being but a rare visi- 
tant tothe South Mahratta country—the chief scene of Mr. Elliot’s 
printed zoological labours:—‘‘ The S4ras lives always in pairs, 
though several pairs are frequently seen together, and occasionally 
though rarely a stray bird, either a young one, or one that had lost 
its mate, with another pair. Every morning they are seen at sun- 
rise winging their way to the cultivated fields, to feed upon grain, 
their sole (chief) aliment ; and about eleven or twelve o’clock they 
make their way to the nearest water to drink, always preferring 
the sandy beds of rivers, where they are seen in the greatest 
numbers, but not disdaining to resort to tanks should no stream 
be near. There they remain all day, and at evening again betake 
themselves to the fields, returning to pass the night by the water- 
side. When alarmed, and when on the wing in their morning 
flights, they utter a fine clear trumpet-like note.” 
The Karlang (whence “ Coolen’’) or European Crane seems 
also to be a rare bird in the Peninsula of India in comparison with 
Upper India generally. There it is seen in great flocks, mingled 
with the Kakarra or Demoiselle as before described, but Mr. 
Jerdon states :—‘ This well-known Crane is found in South India in 
the cold season only, living in pairs or small parties of six, eight, 
or more. Has similar habits and food with the Sérag Crane. On 
one occasion I found the flowers of the Carthamus tinctorius to be 
the only food partaken of. This was late in March, when most of 
the grains are cut. The Koolung is often seen in company with 
the Kurkurrah.” 
“The last,” remarks the same naturalist, “is found all over the 
peninsula during the cold weather, and in much greater numbers 
than either of the other two species. Like these it is most abun- 
dant in the neighbourhood of the larger rivers, and has similar 
habits and food. Mr, Elliot, in his Notes, says :—‘ Flies in vast 
flocks, from fifty to one hundred, and even five hundred, with great 
regularity of arrangement, in a long line, a few of the leading ones 
disposing themselves in another line at an angle, varying from a 
right to an acute one with it. This is when they are in progress. 
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