. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . Avhich breed in tlienorthern regions of both continents, and betake themselvesto the temperate or Avarm climates in winter. They live inflocks, run Avith great celerity, and have a rapid and ex-tended fliglit. When migrating tliev advance in lines,—con- GRUS. CRANE. 19 tinuous, an<;ular, ov uiidiilatcd. Their cry is a loud cleartrumpet-like s
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relation; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . Avhich breed in tlienorthern regions of both continents, and betake themselvesto the temperate or Avarm climates in winter. They live inflocks, run Avith great celerity, and have a rapid and ex-tended fliglit. When migrating tliev advance in lines,—con- GRUS. CRANE. 19 tinuous, an<;ular, ov uiidiilatcd. Their cry is a loud cleartrumpet-like sound. They frequent marshy plains, the mar-gins of lakes and rivers, as well as fields and dry wastes;feeding chiefly on Tcgetable substances, but occasionally alsoon insects and reptiles. Although they bear some consider-able resemblance to the Herons and Storks, they are clearlynot of that family, but more allied to the JJustards andPlovi rs ; their very muscular stomach and double coeca beingsufficient to separate them from the former l)irds. liesides,their young are able to run with great celerity while yetcovered with down. They are said to nestle on the giound,and to lay two or three eggs. 20 GRUS CINEREA. THE GREY CRA^K COMMON Fig. I. Ardea Gnis. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 234,Ardea Gnis. Lath. Ind. Orn. IL Mont. Om. Diet. Gnic cendree. Grus cincrca. Temm. Man. dOrn. IL cinerca. Common Crane. Flem. Brit. Anim. Crane. Grus cinerca. Sclb. Illust. Brit. Oniith. IL 4-Grtis cinerca. Common Crane. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. cinerca. Bonap. Comp. List of Eur. and Aracr. Birds, 46. Upper part of iho head and loral spaces hare, or uparsrhjcovered with hhich hairs; hill f/recuisli-hlaeh, (jrcyisJi-yelJowtoward the end ; phimaije asJi-greij ; fore part of neck and atrianyuJar jmtch on the nape dark grey; prijnari/ quillsgreenish-llach. Male.—The Grey Crane, Avhich is nearly as lar^c as theWhite Stork, has the hody ovate, litth^ coiu})resse(l;
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