. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . ed yards of her nest. She now flies withgreat clamor and apparent anxiety; winding and screaming round the inva-ders, striking at them with her wings, and sometimes fluttering as if shewas wounded. To complete the deception, she becomes still more clarao- AVES—CRANE 625 rous as she retires from the nest. If very near, she appears altogetherunconcerned; and her cries cease in proportion as her fears are appioached by dogs, she flies heavily, at a l
. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . ed yards of her nest. She now flies withgreat clamor and apparent anxiety; winding and screaming round the inva-ders, striking at them with her wings, and sometimes fluttering as if shewas wounded. To complete the deception, she becomes still more clarao- AVES—CRANE 625 rous as she retires from the nest. If very near, she appears altogetherunconcerned; and her cries cease in proportion as her fears are appioached by dogs, she flies heavily, at a little distance before tnem,as if maimed; still vociferous, and still bold, but never offering to movetowards the quarter where her young ones are stationed. The dogs pursue,m expectation every moment of seizing the parent, and by this means actu-ally lose the offspring ; for the cunning bird, having thus drawn them off toa proper distance, exerts her powers, and leaves her astonished pursuers togaze at the rapidity of her flight. The lapwing may be domesticated, andit then becomes uncommonly familiar and confiding. THE CRANEi. Is a tall, slender bird, with a long neck and long legs. The top of the headis covered with black bristles, and the back of it is bald and red, which suf-ficiently distinguishes this bird from the stork, to which it is very nearlyallied in size and figure. The plumage, in general, is ash colored; and thereare two large tufts of feathers that spring from the pinion of each wing. Grus cinerea, Bechst. The genus Grus has the bill as long as, or longer than thehead, strong, straight, compressed, obtuse towards the tip; lateral base of tne mandibledeeply sulcated; ridge elevated; nostrils in the middle of the hill closed behind by amembrane; region of the eyes and base of the bill naked and papillous, or covered withfeathers; legs long, with a large naked space above the knees; the middle fore toe unitedto the outer by a rudimentary membrane, the inner divid
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