#] THE NATURAL HISTORY 
Sometimes the fowler takes a horfe, and walks 
on one fide of the horfe, fo that the Crane does not 
fee the man, and in this manner the fowler cety 
near enough to fhoot him; and fometimes too he — 
takes a dog, which fixes the attention of the — 
Crane, (for the Crane is not at all afraid of the. 
dog) and the fowler, without beHig OuIGE VEN: gets 
within gun-fhot. | , 
_ The Hooping Crane is found in Wailea, in 
the fummer as far north as Hudfon’s Bay, in the 
winter it removes to Georgia. It makes its neft 
on the ground, of grafs and feathers, lays two. 
white eggs, and fits twenty days. “Ihe young at ~ 
firft are yellow, they become white by degrees. 
‘There is a very large Crane found in the Eaft- 
‘Indies, and in Africa ; the wings, when extended, 
~ are near fifteen feet, from the point of one to the 
point of the other ; and from the point of the bill 
to its claws, it meafures feven feet and an half, 
On opening one of them, aland tortoife was found _ 
in-its crop. — 
Mr. Smeathman faw one of thefe gigantic : 
Cranes in Africa, that was tame: at dinner time _ 
it always placed itfelf behind its mafter’s chair. 
‘The fervants were obliged to watch it very care- 
fully, and fometimes ftrike it with a fwitch, to | 
prevent it from ftealing the meat; one day the 
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