. The natural history of the cranes. Cranes (Birds). 86 Monograph of the Cranes. Yarrell says of a very old and large male, that its " note resembled the sound of the word 'hoop/ repeating it loudly ten or twelve times in ; Low, in his " Natural History of Orkney," says " Like the wild geese, these birds fly in the fashion of a wedge, making a fine melodious ; Macgillivray says the trachea is 3ft. 2in. in length, and that he has seen, when in Harris, a flock come in from the Atlantic after a gale, and listened with delight to their loud and clear
. The natural history of the cranes. Cranes (Birds). 86 Monograph of the Cranes. Yarrell says of a very old and large male, that its " note resembled the sound of the word 'hoop/ repeating it loudly ten or twelve times in ; Low, in his " Natural History of Orkney," says " Like the wild geese, these birds fly in the fashion of a wedge, making a fine melodious ; Macgillivray says the trachea is 3ft. 2in. in length, and that he has seen, when in Harris, a flock come in from the Atlantic after a gale, and listened with delight to their loud and clear trumpet-like cries as they sped their way in lengthened files. The accompanying engravings, after Yarrell, show the difierenoe of the sterna and windpipe in the two Steenum and Tkachba 01' Mute Swan. Cygnus olor. In Bewick's swan {Oygnus hewicki) the trachea is convoluted in the keel of the sternum, and, as might be expected, its note is described as having a deep tone, and the bird as being exceedingly 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 Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873; Tegetmeier, W. B. (William Bernhard), 1816-1912. [London] Pub. for the author by H. Cox [etc. ]
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