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Title: Indian sporting birds
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Finn, Frank, 1868-1932 Hume, Allan Octavian, 1829-1912 Marshall, Charles Henry Tilson, 1841-
Subjects: Birds -- India Game and game-birds -- India
Publisher: London : Francis Edwards
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ised by such foes.Few birds also will attack this powerful species, and PrinceMirza, in his valuable and interesting book on hawking, trans-lated by Colonel Phillott, says that if 3^ou want a falcon to takecranes, you must not let her fly at herons, these being so mucheasier game. He also says that if one member of a flock isbrought down by the hawk, its companions will all come to itsassistance, and much commends their esprit de corps. Woundedcranes, by the way, run fast and swim fairly well, while theyare nasty customers to tackle without a stick. Their trumpeting note is very fine and characteristic, and,in addition to their habit of forming lines and wedges m flight,has always made them conspicuous; as Dante says:— And as the cranes go trumpeting, their call,Trailing their long-drawn line across the skj. And one of the classical crane stories is of the poet Ibycus,who, done to death by highwaymen, called with his dyingbreath on a passing flight of cranes to avenge him. The story
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< UJ en HOODED CEANE 125 says the birds did not forget, but some time after were seencircling and calling over a market-place in which the robberswere at the time. One conscience-strack rnffian cried out to hisfriend, There are the avengers of Ibycus, and thus betrayinghis secret, brought justice on the whole gang. Hanging practically all over Europe, though chietly breeding inthe north—including England once—this great bird has naturallyleft a very marked impression in literature; it breeds all acrossnorthern Asia also, and winters in China as well as India. Nonest has ever been found in our limits ; the eggs and young aremuch like those of the sarus, but smaller. The native name Kullimg is generally used also by Europeans;a slight variant is the Deccani Kidlam, and Kooroonch is anotherHindustani name ; in Manipur the name is Wainu. Hooded Crane. Gnis vionachus. Nabezuru, Japanese. This very rare visitant is distinguished from all our othercranes by the complete and conspicuou

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