[76] Thompson, Passions of Animals (1851), p. 225. The American hunter avails himself of this peculiarity to entrap the crane by presenting the barrel of his firelock to the animal; supposing it to be an eye, the crane immediately strikes at the hole, and fixes its beak firmly in the muzzle.
[77] Beechey, Voyage to the North Pole (London, 1843), pp. 93-4.
[78] Bates, Naturalist on the Amazons (3rd ed. London, 1873), p. 230.
[79] Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China, Siam, Cambodia, and Laos in 1858-9, by the late M. Henri Mouhot (London, 1864), vol. ii. p. 147.
[80] It is to be observed that this is not the rhinoceros’s usual mode of attack.
[81] Cranz, Historie von Grönland (2nd ed. Barby and Leipzig, 1770), p. 196, pl. v. 8.
[82] Beechey, Voyage to the North Pole (London, 1843), p. 252.
[83] Cuming, Journal of the Archaeological Association, vol. iii. p. 25.
[84] Ibid., p. 26.
[85] Swainson, Habits and Instincts of Animals (London, 1840), p. 141.