. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. /irT"r: cho- :abi- deecl two Iranes; perties, pedes; rs, but in Vol- ja, and inches CRANE. 291 inches in perpendicular height, and if fpread out, would ineafurc more than five feet between the tip of the bill and the toes; the naked part of the thighs is four inches, the legs are black, and only ten inches and a half. Confir^ering its force of wing and its migratory inltinft, we cannot be furpriztd that the Crane (hould vifit every climate. Yet we fufpccl that it
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. /irT"r: cho- :abi- deecl two Iranes; perties, pedes; rs, but in Vol- ja, and inches CRANE. 291 inches in perpendicular height, and if fpread out, would ineafurc more than five feet between the tip of the bill and the toes; the naked part of the thighs is four inches, the legs are black, and only ten inches and a half. Confir^ering its force of wing and its migratory inltinft, we cannot be furpriztd that the Crane (hould vifit every climate. Yet we fufpccl that it never advances fur- ther South than the tropic: all the coun- tries where the ancients placed the winter refidence of the Crane, Lybia, the regions fituate at the origin of the Nile, of the Indus, and o^ the Ganges, are within this limit, which alfo bounded the Geography of antiquity. The Cranes, natives of the North, feek only a moc^srate degree of tem- perature, and not the fcorching heats of the Torrid Zone. The fens which invite them never occur in the midft of arid plains and burning fands; and if a few tribes follow- ing gradually the chain of mountains, where the heats are mitigated, at laft pafs the equator and advance into the South, they become loll in thofe countries, difmem- bered from the reft of the fpecies, and never join in the migrations to the North. Such in particular are the Cranes which, Kol- ben fays, are numerous at the Cape of u 2 Good ,; n 'â 'â¢'â if'i â 'â¢" .u'-:=t 'â '\.' I â ; ^ , â >â ': ' h-:!,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strachan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray . ..
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