252 GEUID^. 



Adult male in winter plumage. General colour above dark ashy 

 grey, with obsolete isabelfine tips to the feathers ; wing-coverts like 

 the back, the greater series clearer grey and somewhat blackish to- 

 wards the ends ; bastard- wing black, followed by a row of grey 

 coverts, preceding the primary-coverts, which are black like the 

 primaries, and somewhat shaded with grey near the base ; second- 

 aries for the most part dark grey, more or less blackish on the outer 

 webs and tips, the inner web lighter grey ; innermost secondaries com- 

 posed of lanceolate plumes which are slaty grey with black tips ; 

 upper tail-coverts grey ; tail-feathers also grey, blackish towards the 

 ends ; crown of head and lores bare, only covered by blackish hair- 

 like bristles ; nape with a triangular patch of dark slate-coloui" ; 

 hind neck white, also the sides of the neck, as well as the sides of 

 the head and the ear-coverts as far as the eye ; feathers below the 

 eye, sides of face, and throat dark slate-colour; remainder of under 

 surface from the lower throat downwards ashy grey, including the 

 under wing-coverts and the hypopteral plumes : " bill greyish 

 green, a little red near the base ; eyelid reddish brown " {J. F. 

 Faiimann) ; "iris reddish; legs blackish grey" {H. E. Dresser). 

 Total length about 36 inches, culmen 4-7, wing 22, tail 8, tarsus 

 9-5, middle toe and claw 4-2. 



The young birds when about a foot high are stiU covered with 

 down, through which the grey plumage of the adult makes its 

 appearance ; the head is pale ochreous buff. {Mus. Lurjcl.) 



The full-grown young bird is very similar to the adult, but has 

 the feathers edged with fulvous ; the crown and nape are rust- 

 coloured. {Mus. Lurjd.) 



Nestling covered with yellowish -buff down, very dense in 

 texture. 



Hah. The greater part of Europe, wintering in Northern and 

 North-eastern Africa. How far to the eastward this species ranges 

 I am unable to say, as I have seen no eastern specimens. 



a, b. Ad. St. Em-ope. Purchased, 



c. c? imm. sk. Unst, Shetland, July 18 {H. L. Gumey CoU. 



Saxby ^ T. JEdmonston). 



d. Ad. sk. Norway. Salvin-Godman 



Coll. 



e. $ ad. sk. South Spain. Lord Lilford [P.]. 



2. Grus lilfordi. 



Grus vulgaris, pt., Pall. Zoogr. Eosso-Asiat. p. 106 (1811). 



Grus cinerea {nee Meyer <§• Wolf), Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 194 

 (1840) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 274 (1849) ; Schrenck, 

 Meis. Amurl. p. 408 (1859) ; Irhj, Ibis, 1861, p. 243 (Oudh, winter) ; 

 Siuinh. t. c. p. 405 (Swatow, winter) ; Madde, Reis. Sibir., Vog. 

 p. 317 (1863 : Tarei-Nor, Kamardaban Mts., Kultuk, Bureja Mts.) ; 

 Gray, Cat. Mamm. ^-c. Nejyal 2}res. Hodgs. p. 71 (1863) ; Jerd. B. 

 I»d. ii. p. 664 (1864) ; I)yb. ^- Parvex, J. f. O. 1868, p. 337 

 (Dauria) : SxmiJi. Ibis, 1868, p. 353 ; id. Ibis, 1870, pp. 79, 362 

 (Hainan, March) ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 402 (Pekin; S. China in 

 winter) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1873, p. 81 ; Lloyd, t. c. p. 417 (Kathiawar) ; 



