1. GRus. 255 



p. 312 (Kentucky) ; Conj, B. West Ind. p. 251 (1889 : accidental 

 in Cuba) ; Mearm, Auk, vii. p. 51 (1890: Arizona); Thomps. Pr. 

 U.S. Xat. Mas. xiii. p. 491 (1890: Manitoba); Hart Merriam, 

 N. Am. Faun. no. 3, p. 88 (1890 : Mormon Lake), v. p. 90 (1891 : 

 Idaho); Drewst. Sf Chapm. Auk, viii. p. 137 (Suwanee River); 

 Wayne, t. c. p. 308 (S. Carolina) ; Laior. Auk, ix. p. 42 (1892 : 

 Gray's Harbour, Washington) ; Scott, t. c. p. 312 (Florida) ; 

 Attwater, t. c. p. 232 (San Antonio) ; Cory, Cat. West Ltd. B. 

 p. 90 (1892). 



Grus schlegolii, Blyth, Field, vol. xlii. p. 419 (1873) ; Tegetm. ed. 

 Blyth, Man. Cranes, p. 78 (1881). 



Grus canadensis, ^. me.xicana, Baird, Brewer, S; Ridgiv. Water- B. 

 N. Am. i. p. 407 (1884). 



Grus cinerea, Seebohm (nee Mei/er ^- Wolf), B. Jap. Emp. p. 348 

 (1890). 



Adult male. General colour above slaty grey ; the wing-coverts 

 rather lighter than the back, and washed with rusty brown on the 

 margins of the feathers, the coverts with dusky or blackish shafts ; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts rather lighter grey than 

 the back ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts ashy grey, the latter 

 somewhat darker towards their ends ; primaries blackish with 

 yellowish-white shafts, and somewhat dusted with grey on their 

 outer aspect ; secondaries also light ashy, the inner ones slightly 

 falcate and pointed, with a few decomposed feathers ; tail-feathers 

 slaty grey ; crown of head bare, the hinder crown, nape, and hind 

 neck slaty blue, somewhat lighter on the ear-coverts and on the 

 lower throat and fore neck ; feathers below the eye, cheeks, and 

 throat white ; remainder of the under surface ashy grey, including 

 the under wing-coverts and hypopteral plumes, many of the feathers 

 of the under surface rather browner and with pale pearly grey 

 margins : " bill blackish, paler at tip ; entire pilcum, including the 

 lores, covered with a bare granulated skin (reddish in life) inter- 

 spersed with fine blackish hair ; the posterior margin of this bare 

 skin divided medially on the occiput by an angular projection of 

 the feathers on the upper part of the nape ; feet blackish ; iris 

 crimson " (Baird, Brewer, tj- liidjiuay). Total length about 40 

 inches, culmen 6-2, wing 21*5, tail 7'2, tarsus 9*5, middle toe and 

 claw 4. 



Young. Similar to the adult, but the whole of the plumage 

 obscured by rust-colour, the head covered with down ; forehead, 

 sides of face, and throat covered with greyish-white down. 



Huh. " United States, chiedy from the Mississippi Valley, west to 

 the Pacific coast, south into Mexico, and eastwards along the Gulf 

 coast of Florida and Georgia " {Rldfjiuay). 



a. Ad. sk. North America. Old Coll. 



b. Juv. sk. North America. J. J. Audubon, Esq. 



[C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Orcas Island, Vancouver, June. Dr. Lyall P.]. 



d-i. S $ ad. Tarpon Springs, Florida, April to Salviu-Golnian Coll. 



et iuv. sk. Oct. ( \V. E. D. Scott). 



k-l. Pull. ak. De Soto Couutv, Florida, Mav Salvia-Godman Coll. 

 ( W. R. Dean). 



