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6. Grus nigricoUis. 



Grus nigricollis, Przew. in Howley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 436, pi. ix. (1877) ; 

 Teyetmeier, Monogr. Cranes, p. 70, pi. i. (1881). 



" Adult male. Head and upper part of neck smoky black ; crown 

 naked, with a rough red skiu covered with very few small hairy 

 feathers, which cover rather thickly the forehead and lores ; there 

 is a small white spot behind the eyes. The lower portion of the 

 neck, the upper and under tail-coverts, and the whole body are of a 

 pale ashy colour, lighter than in G. cinerea. The inner webs of the 

 large wing-coverts are brownish grey ; the larger shoulder-feathers 

 are blackish and brownish grey. Wings are dull black ; the tcrti- 

 aries and their coverts (all of which are black) are elongated, pointed 

 at the end, branched at the points, and turned up and raised above 

 the tail in a patch. Culmen greenish horn-colour, lighter on the 

 tip; the feathered portion of the lower mandible extends 0"-3 

 further than the side-feathering on the upper mandible ; legs black ; 

 iris golden yellow. Total length 48 inches, culmen 4-8, wing 25-3, 

 tail 9-3, tarsus 10-2." 



I have copied Przewalski's description, as the specimen presented 

 by Mr. Seebohm is moulting and in somewhat imperfect plumage. 



Hah. Xokonoor. 



a. $ ad, sk. Kokonoor (Przewalnki). Seebohm Coll. 



7. Grus japonensis. 



La Grue du Japon, JBriss. Orn. v. p. 381 (1760). 



Ardea (Grus) japonensis, Miiller, Syat. Nat. Svppl. p. 110 (1776). 



Japan Crane, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p 42 (1785). 



Grus japonensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 621 (1788) ; Seebohm, B. Japan. 

 Emp. p. 361 (IBiJO) ; Campbell, Ibis, 1892, p. 247 (Corea, winter 

 migrant). 



Grus viridirostris, Tieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1141 (1823) ; Sivinh. 

 P. Z. S. 1863, p. 309 (N. China) ; Gray, Hancl-l. B. iii. p. 25, 

 no. 10089 (1871) ; Sxvinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 403, 1873, p. 512 

 (Shanghai) ; Tacz. J. f. 0. 1873, p. 100 (Dauria), 1875, p. 2.55 

 (Ussuri Delta) ; id. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 246 (1876) ; 

 David Sr Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 435 (1877); Teget^n. ed. Blyth's 

 Monogr. Cranes, p. 53 (1881); Seeb. Ibis, 1884, p. 178 (Japan, 

 winter) ; Blakist. Amended List B. Japan, pp. 12, 41 (Japan 

 generally) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 611 (Corea) ; id. P. Z. S. 1888, 

 p. 468; Styan, Ibis, 1891, pp. 329, 602 (Lower Yangtze in 

 winter). 



Grus collaris {nee Bodd.), Temm. PI. Col. genus Grvs, sp. 4 (1828). 



Antigone montignesia, Bp. C, R. xxxvii. p. 661 (1854) ; id. Consp. 

 ii. p. 100 (1854). 



Grus montignesia, Scl.in Wolf's Zool. Sketches, 1st ser. pi. 46 (1861) ; 

 Bartlett, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 369, pl.xxxv. (nesting) ; Prze%o. Putesch. 

 Ussuri, p. 54 (1869) ; Bogd. Consp. Av. Imp. Ross. p. 109 (1884). 



Grus leucogeranus, pt., I}yb. ^ Parve.v, J. f. 0. 1868, p. 337 (Dara- 

 sun, teste Tacz.), 



Grus leucaucheu {/lec T.), Blakist. ^- Pryer, B. Japan, p. 121 (1882). 



