"Note-on the utilization of ie crand as a fisher and'retriover, by Dr. Zinc The ease with which: ti cated "is well known, account given by Viguier of th mont of. in ird in'South America to tend shoop is not incredible, and it need not be matter of an rise that the Chinese, who have rendered the fractious and wnsocial cormorant sub to. piscatorial industry, have in like manner facial and sagacious crane. Tuis they accomplished, but to a limited extent, their sticooss in that undortakiig would has peen-auch that this. communication could notbo what. it la, the first publication on the subject, 'The utilization of-the crane to catcli: fish-and: to retrieve game: seoms restricted to this and the provinces conterminous, Captain Knight and the Re 'Mr. Whiting mot with them at the mouth of "creek emptying into the' Yangtaze thirty miles above Chinkiang; by Mr. Robert Aviderton and Me, E."W. Tritton Jagoon onthe south side of the same near Tunglu; and by Mr. W. B. Carr and others on a crook at'Tsingpu, near the Great Lake. It appears to resemble, if it is not identical with, the Grus Monacha (Tominick.) Crane-fishing boats are found sometimes hal(-a-dozen together, - eaolt Boat having a pair of birds tethered by string and -ring. Betimes, they are pUshed into the-water, from which they th their finoy" prey, bat it isnot jets are plunged ream, or'merely made to stand Tt is believed that they are made 'a0, they may prove to be a new species, slightly web-footed. Those n'at'Tunglu neither waded nor' dived, being employed as refri ding from the hunter-boat to seize and brim, buck birds which bid been brought dows mat is a meagre account of the crane as but it may excite investigation and lead to up of the obvious lacune of thi the birds have been offered for sale at a dollar and a half each, that when again mot with, specimens will be purchased for the Shanghai Museum, and also that the mode of employing be carefully observed. It la desirable also to ascertain whether they are bred in captivity, or caught wild and tamed.
might-add that the Museum is in need of nests and eggs of the "tree duck," a teal; they are to be found on housetops and forsaken chiranoys.
Shanghai, 10th Jan.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.