CRANE. 
309 
It is a little singular that the Crane, the stork, and 
the heron, should each at times choose such very opposite 
situations for their nests. All are known to breed upon 
the ground, the heron seldom; and all make choice of 
more elevated sites as well. 
It appears from the following very interesting notes> 
which I copy from Evelyn's Diary of October, 1671, 
that both the Crane and the stork have formerly re¬ 
mained to breed in this country. Evelyn had been on 
a visit to Sir Thomas Browne, who, in those early days 
had a collection of birds' eggs, probably the first of its 
kind in this country; he says, that “amongst other curio¬ 
sities, Sir Thomas had a collection of the eggs of all the 
fowl and birds he could procure; that county (especially 
the promontory of Norfolk) being frequented, as he said, 
by several kinds which seldom or never go further into 
the land—as Cranes, storks, eagles, and a variety of 
water fowl." 
