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his neck ftretched out; if any thing alarm him, 
he informs the reft with a cry. 
The Crane lays but two eggs, and the young, 
“ foon after they can fly, accompany their parents 
in their migration, or paflage, from one country 
to another. 
Cranes are taken by {nares, and fometimes 
by Falcons. In fome parts of Poland they are 
in fuch numbers, that the peafants are obliged to 
build huts in the middle of their fields of corn to 
drive them away, for they are very great deftroyers 
of grain. It is in the dark chiefly that they 
plunder, and fometimes in one night they will. 
lay wafte a whole field of corn; they devour it, 
and trample it down, as though a regiment of 
foldiers had marched over it. 
When Cranes are purfued by Falcons, they 
endeavour to rife very high in the air, and 
fometimes they ftrike their bills through the Fal- 
cons and kill them; but as they are not fkilful 
in turning, the Falcon will frequently wound 
the wings of the Cranes, and they fall down 
to the ground; but even then they will lie upon 
their backs, and fight defperately with their beaks 
and their claws, until the fowler comes and kills 
them. 
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