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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 eges, and the young, 
foon after they can fly, accompany their parents 
in their migration, or ea from one country 
to another. 
Cranes are taken by fabs, 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 deltroyers 
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 F aleons, 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, intl the fowler comes and sas | 
them. 
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