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Title: Birds in their haunts, by the late C. A. Johns
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874 Visger, Jean Allan (Pinder) Owen, 1841-
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, G. Routledge New York, E. P. Dutton
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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he rush bed; but not asingle bird was dislodged. Owing to drainage the Coot is less plentiful than it was, althoughthe late Lord Lilford said it had increased much on the river Neueof recent years. ORDER ALECTORIDES FAMILY GRUID.ETHE CRANE GRUS COMMTJNIS General plumage ash-grey; throat, part of the neck, and back of the head,dark blackish grey ; forehead and cere covered with black bristly hairs ;crown naked, orange red ; some of the secondaries elongated, arched,and having the barbs of the feathers free ; bill greenish black, reddishat the base, horn-coloured at the tip ; irides reddish brown ; feet black.Young birds have the crown feathered, and want the dark grey of the neckand head. Length five feet. Eggs pale greenish ash, blotched andspotted with brown and dark green. From the fact of nine Cranes being recorded among the presentsreceived at the wedding of the daughter of Mr. More, of Loseley, in1567, it would appear that these birds were tolerably common inEngland at that date.
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Common Crane. Heron £ Stork^Night Heron. (facep. 134. THE CRANE 235 Willughby, whose Ornithology was published about a hundredyears later, says that Cranes were regular visitors in England, andthat large flocks of them were to be found, in summer, in the fensof Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire. Whether they bred in Eng-land, as Aldrovandus states, on the authority of an Englishmanwho had seen their young, he could not say on his own personalknowledge. Sir Thomas Browne, a contemporary of Willughby, writes, inhis account of birds found in Norfolk : Cranes are often seen herein hard winters, especially about the champaign and fieldy part.It seems they have been more plentiful; for, in a bUl of fare, whenthe mayor entertained the Duke of Norfolk, I met with Cranesin a dish. Pennant, writing towards the close of the eighteenth century,says: On the strictest inquiry, we learn that, at present, theinhabitants of those counties are scarcely acquainted with them ;we therefore conclude that th

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