British zoology . by the print to be Dbsc*ipVol. II. T t equal 6:S APPENDIX. equal to that of a (tare. The bill at the point isblack, at the bale a dirty flefh color : the headis adorned with a creft hanging backwards. Thehead, creft, neck, wing?, and tail are black, glofiedwith a changeable blue, purple and green: thebread, belly, back, and leifer coverts of the wings,are of a role color, mixed with a few fpots ofblack : the legs of a dirty orange color. This bird is found in 1 , Italy, and Syria, About . it is called the locuft bird, poflibly from its food ; and appears there only in fummer*
British zoology . by the print to be Dbsc*ipVol. II. T t equal 6:S APPENDIX. equal to that of a (tare. The bill at the point isblack, at the bale a dirty flefh color : the headis adorned with a creft hanging backwards. Thehead, creft, neck, wing?, and tail are black, glofiedwith a changeable blue, purple and green: thebread, belly, back, and leifer coverts of the wings,are of a role color, mixed with a few fpots ofblack : the legs of a dirty orange color. This bird is found in 1 , Italy, and Syria, About . it is called the locuft bird, poflibly from its food ; and appears there only in fummer*.In Italy it is- ftyled the fea-ftare; and as Aldro-\ fays, frequents heaps of dung f. And informs us, that it reticles in Lapland, ne-ver paffing beyond the limits of that frozen have mentioned very oppofue climes, but be-lieve it to be a fcarce bird in all, at left in Europe, ? RujfeV shift. Alcp. 70. Tanermitr% 146. t .-; . if. 283. J Migr. av, Aman. acad. IV. 594. WATER The CRAKE #. J)**Tn***jCvna j->~»i< A P P E N D I X. €?c3 WATER FOWL. VI. The C R A N E. Le Grue. Belon av. 187. tab. 33. Grus. Gefner atf, 528. Kranich. Kram. 345. A Crane. Turner. Kranich. Frifcb, II. 194. Gru, Grua. Aldr. av. III. Ardea Grus Lin. fyft. 234, 132. Trana. Faun. Suec. Jp. 161,, Wil. orn. 274. Danis Trane. Brunnicb. Raii fyn. av. 95. Br. Zool. Grue. Brijjbn a<v. V. 374. THIS fpecies was placed, in the folio editionof the Zoology, among the Britijh birds, onthe authority of Mr. Ray ; who informs us, that inhis time, they were found during the winter inlarge flocks in Lincoln/hire and Cambridge/hire: buton the irricleft enquiry we learn, that at prefent theinhabitants of thofe counties are fcarcely acquaint-ed with them •, we therefore conclude, that thefebirds have forfaken our ifland. A fingle birdwas killed near Cambridge about three years ago?and is the only inftance I ever knew of the cranebeing feen in this ifland in our time. They were for-me
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