. Arctic zoology .. . unknown. Defcribed from a live bird at Amjlerdam.—Lev. Mus ?■—Latham, iii. * Laiufon, 148. t Ixii. 410. % Faun, Suec. N 164, 11 iv. 588. Little LITTLE HERON, AND COMMON CRANE. 453 Little Bittern, ^r. Zm/. ii. App. N° x. tab. vili.—PI. Enl. iz^,—Latham, u\. 359. Little. Ardea Minuta, Lin. Syft. zip.—Lev. Mus,—Bl. Mus. XJ With a fmooth head: crown black : hind part of the neck andcheeks ferruginous: coverts on the ridge of the wing, andends of the greater, of a bright bay; the reft of the coverts of avery pale clay color: primaries and fecondaries du(
. Arctic zoology .. . unknown. Defcribed from a live bird at Amjlerdam.—Lev. Mus ?■—Latham, iii. * Laiufon, 148. t Ixii. 410. % Faun, Suec. N 164, 11 iv. 588. Little LITTLE HERON, AND COMMON CRANE. 453 Little Bittern, ^r. Zm/. ii. App. N° x. tab. vili.—PI. Enl. iz^,—Latham, u\. 359. Little. Ardea Minuta, Lin. Syft. zip.—Lev. Mus,—Bl. Mus. XJ With a fmooth head: crown black : hind part of the neck andcheeks ferruginous: coverts on the ridge of the wing, andends of the greater, of a bright bay; the reft of the coverts of avery pale clay color: primaries and fecondaries du(l<;y, with ferru-ginous tips: lower fide of the neck and belly of a yellowifh white :breaft crofted with a band of black: tail black: legs of a duflcy « green. Length, to the end of the tail, fifteen inches. The bodynarrow : neck very long. Inhabits from New York to South Carolina, and many parts of Europe. Extends to, and perhaps winters in J<?»?«/V«. Its eggs areof a fea-green Common Crake, Br. Zool. ii. App. No vi.—ArdeaGrus, Trana, Faun. Suec. N* 161.—Latham, iii. —La Grue, De Buffon, vii. 286. tab. xiv.—/•/. Enl. 769. —Lev. Mus. XJ With a bald crown : fore part of the neck black : primariesblack : a large tuft of elegant unwebbed curling feathersfpringing from one pinion of each wing: thofe, and all the reft of theplumage, cinereous. Length fix feet. Weight about ten pounds. Cranes arrive in Sweden in great flocks in the fpring feafon; pair. Place. and difperfe over the whole country j and ufually refort to breed tothe very fame places which they had ufed for many years paft *• * Aman, Jcad. iv. 588. No 454 C O M M O N C R A N E. No augural attention is paid to thena there; yet Hefiod direfts theGrecian farmer t® think of ploughing whenever he hears the an- nual clanaor of the Cranes in the clouds *.■Place, Inhabits all Rujfia and Sibiria, even as far eaft as the nvtv Anadyr -, and migrates even to the Ar£fk circle
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