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GEUS CINEREA. THE GREY CRANE. 



OOMJBOS CKAKE. 



Flc. I. 



Ardea Grus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 234, 

 Ardea Grus. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 674. 

 Crane. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Grue cendree. Grus cinerea. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 567. 

 Grus cinerea. Common Crane. Flem. Brit. Anim, 97. 

 Common Crane. Grus cinerea. Selb. Illust. Brit. Ornith. II, 4. 

 Grus cinerea. Common Crane. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 185. 

 Grus cinerea. Bocap. Comp. List of Eur. and Amer. Birds, 46. 



Upper part of the head and loral spaces bare, or sparsely 

 covered with black hairs ; bill greenish-black, greyish-yellow 

 toward the end ; plumage ash-grey ; fore part of neck and a 

 triangular patch on the nape dark grey ; primary quills 

 greenish-black. 



Male. — The Grey Crane, which is nearly as large as the 

 White Stork, has the body ovate, little compressed ; the neck 

 very long, bnt of moderate thickness; the head ovate, and much 



