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which grew in the same marsh, near the nest. Some of the 
pieces had been pulled up by the roots. It was twenty-seven 
inches across, and three or four inches in thickness, perfectly 
flat; dripping wet in its lowest layers. The birds sailed over 
our heads to another part of the marsh, where I examined them 
with my glass. 
It will be deduced from what I have stated that the Crane in 
Lapland is not gregarious when it has once arrived at its sum¬ 
mer quarters; that as soon as it reaches its breeding-place, for 
the most part as soon as the snow is mainly off the ground, it 
repairs its simple nest, and lays its two eggs; -for two were in the 
four nests that have occurred to me, and two generally say those 
few natives who know anything about the subject. The nest is 
neither large nor concealed. The birds are silent towards in¬ 
truders on the eggs. The young run probably as soon as, or 
soon after, they are hatched, and by some means are led or con¬ 
veyed to a great distance by their parents after having been dis¬ 
turbed. They have a chestnut or tawny down ; no feathers visible 
in their wings for some time. In Lapland, and as far as I have 
heard, in Sweden and Finland generally, the Crane never breeds 
otherwise than on the ground. It seems not to visit Norway. 
April 4 , 1859, Beeston, Nottingham. 
XXL— Recent Ornithological Publications . 
1. English Publications. 
The correspondent who furnished us with the review of Mr. 
Breeds { Birds of Europe not observed in the British Isles/ 
published in our first Number, begs us to insert his apologies to 
that gentleman for having accidentally misquoted his words. 
In the extract given at page 96 of f The Ibis 5 from Mr. Breeds 
account of Aquila pennata (Birds of Europe, page 70), the word 
“ not ” was unintentionally inserted. Four additional parts of 
this book have now appeared; and we hope to be able to per¬ 
suade our correspondent to continue his able criticisms. But 
in the meanwhile we cannot avoid noticing a point in which we 
consider Mr. Bree in error. With reference to what he calls the 
Azure-winged Magpie,” it has now long been known that the 
