
\ 
e4° THE NATURAL HISTORY 
Sometimes the fowler takes a horfe, and wal 
on-one fide of the horfe, fo that the Crane does y 
fee the man, and in this manner the fowler get 
near enough to fhoot him; and fometimes too} 
takes a dog, which fixes the attention of th 
Crane, (for the Crane is not at all afraid of th 
dog) and the fowler, without being obferved, get 
within gun-fhot. : 
The Hooping Crane is found in America: j 
the fummer as far north as Hudfon’s Bay, in th 
winter it removes to Georgia. It makes its ne 
on the grou d, of grafs and feathers, lays tn 
white eggs, and fits twenty days. The young 
firft are yellow, they become white by degrees, | . 
‘There is a very large Crane found in the Eaf 
Indies, and in Africa ; the wings, when extende 
are near fifteen feet, from the point of one to th 
point of the other; and from the point of the bi 
to its claws, it meafures feven feet and an 
On opening one of them, aland tortoife was fo 
in its crop. 
-Mr. Smeathman faw one of thefe gigant 
it always placed itfelf behind its mafter’s c 
The fervants were obliged to watch it very Ca 
fully, and fometimes ftrike it with a {witch, ¢ 

