. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . gratory birds, which breed in thenorthern regions of both continents, and betake themselvesto the temperate or warm climates in winter. They live intlocks, run with great celerity, and have a rapid and ex-tended flight. When migrating they advance in lines,—con- GItUS. CRANE. 19 tinuous, angular, or undulated. Their cry is a loud cleartrumpet-l
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . gratory birds, which breed in thenorthern regions of both continents, and betake themselvesto the temperate or warm climates in winter. They live intlocks, run with great celerity, and have a rapid and ex-tended flight. When migrating they advance in lines,—con- GItUS. CRANE. 19 tinuous, angular, or undulated. Their cry is a loud cleartrumpet-like sound. They frequent marshy plains, the mar-gins of lakes and rivers, as well as fields and dry wastes;feeding chiefly on vegetable substances, but occasionally alsoon insects and reptiles. Although the) bear some consider-able resemblance to the Herons and Storks, they are clearlynot of that family, but more allied to the Bustards andPlovers ; their very muscular stomach and double coeca beingsufficient to separate them from the former birds. Besides,their young are able to run with great celerity while yetcovered with down. They are said to nestle on the ground,and to lay two or three eggs. 20 GEUS CINEREA. THE GREY CRANE. OOMJBOS Flc. I. Ardea Grus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 234,Ardea Grus. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. Mont. Orn. Diet. Grue cendree. Grus cinerea. Temm. Man. dOrn. II. cinerea. Common Crane. Flem. Brit. Anim, Crane. Grus cinerea. Selb. Illust. Brit. Ornith. II, cinerea. Common Crane. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. cinerea. Bocap. Comp. List of Eur. and Amer. Birds, 46. Upper part of the head and loral spaces bare, or sparselycovered with black hairs ; bill greenish-black, greyish-yellowtoward the end ; plumage ash-grey ; fore part of neck and atriangular patch on the nape dark grey; primary quillsgreenish-black. Male.—The Grey Crane, which is nearly as large as theWhite Stork, has the body ovate, little compressed; the neck
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