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FAMILY RALLIDÆ
Few persons can have spent the summer months in the country,
and enjoyed their evenings in the open air, without having grown
familiar with the note of the Corn Crake; yet, strange to say, among
those who have heard it on numberless occasions, not one in a
hundred (leaving sportsmen out of the account) have ever seen one
alive. Its whole life, while with us, seems to be spent among the
long grass and stalks of hay or corn, between which its long legs and
slender body give it peculiar facility of moving, and it is only when
hard pressed that it rises from the ground. Its flight is low, with its
legs hanging down; and it usually drops into the nearest hedge or
cover which presents itself, and from which it is not easily flushed a
second time.
The Corn Crake used to be found, during summer, in all the
counties of England, but is less frequent in Cornwall and Devonshire
than in the counties farther east, and increases in abundance as we
advance northwards. In the north of Ireland it is to be heard in every
meadow and cornfield, and here its incessant cry in the evenings is
monotonous, if not wearisome; in many parts of Scotland it is also
very common, and here it is much more frequently seen. In waste
lands, where it can find no continuous corn, it takes refuge in
patches of flags, rushes, or tall weeds, and if watched for, may be
seen leaving its place of concealment, and quietly walking along the
grass, lifting its feet high, and stooping from time to time to pick up
its food, consisting of worms, insects, snails, and seeds.
The Spotted Crake is smaller in size than the Corn Crake, and far
less common. It is shot from time to time in various parts of Great
Britain, especially in the fen countries, to which its habits are best
suited. It frequents watery places which abound with reeds, flags,
and sedges, and among these it conceals itself, rarely using its
wings, but often wading over mud and weeds, and taking freely to
the water, in which it swims with facility. The nest, which is a large
structure, composed of rushes and reeds, is placed among thick
vegetation, near the water's edge, and contains from seven to ten
eggs.
The drainage and improving of waste lands has driven this Crake
away, but its eggs have been found in Roscommon, and a nestling in
Kerry.
ORDER ALECTORIDES
FAMILY GRUIDÆ
THE CRANE
GRUS COMMÚNIS
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, reddish at 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 neck and head. Length
five feet. Eggs pale greenish ash, blotched and spotted with
brown and dark green.
From the fact of nine Cranes being recorded among the presents
received at the wedding of the daughter of Mr. More, of Loseley, in
1567, it would appear that these birds were tolerably common in
England at that date.
Willughby, whose Ornithology was published about a hundred
years later, says that Cranes were regular visitors in England, and
that large flocks of them were to be found, in summer, in the fens of
Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire. Whether they bred in England, as
Aldrovandus states, on the authority of an Englishman who had seen
their young, he could not say on his own personal knowledge.
FAMILY OTIDIDÆ
No hind toe.