2. LIMNOGERANUS. 259 



-Adult female. General colour above and below pure wbite, in- 

 cluding the wing-coverts, jirimary quills, and tail ; secondaries 

 black, the innermost ones pointed and somewhat drooping, some of 

 the feathers decomposed ; head bare, the forehead and anterior 

 crown as well as the lores covered with blackish hairs ; cheeks, throat, 

 and hind neck dark slaty grey enclosing a broad white band, which 

 extends frcmi the occiput down the hind neck, and extends laterally 

 over the ear-coverts to the region over and below the eye : " bill 

 and feet dull green ; iris very dark, appearing black in the living 

 bird" (E. Bli/th). Total length about 50 inches, culmen 6"3, wing 

 24, tail 10-5, tarsus 10-2, middle toe and claw 5-2. 



Hub. Eastern Siberia to Corea and Japan, wintering in the 

 Yangtze basin. 



a. Ad. sk. Japan. Lord Lilford [P.]. 



b. d ad. sk. Nagasaki, Japan. F. Ringer, Esq. [P.]. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Corea, Jan. 20. C. Campbell, Esq. [P.]. 



d. Ad. sk. North China. Zoological Society. 



2. LIMNOGERANUS. „ 



Type. 



Limnogeranus, Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, no. vii. 



p. xxxvii (March 28, 1893) L. americanus. 



Range. The same as that of the single species of the genus. 



1. Limnogeranus americanus. 



The Hooping Crane, C'afcsbi/, Xaf. II. Carol, i. p. 7o, pi. 7o (1731) ; 



Edicards, Nat. HUt. B. p.'l32, pi. 132 (1751) ; Fenn. ArcticZool. ii. 



p. 442 (1785) : Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. ], p. 42 (1785). 

 La Gnie d'Ameiique, Briss. Orn. v. p. 382 (1760); Daubent. PL 



Enl. viii. pi. 889. 

 Ardea americana, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 234 (1766) ; Gm. Syst. Nat. 



I. p. 621 (1788) ; Wils. Amer. Orn. viii. p. 20, pi. 64. fig. 3 (1814). 

 La Gnie blanche, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 308 (1780). 

 Grus clamaior, Bartr. Trav. Florida, p. 202 (1791). 

 Griis americana, Vieill. N. Diet. d'HiM. Nat. xiii. p. 557 (1817); 



Temm. Man. p. c (1820) ; Audub. B. Anicr. pi. ccxxvi. ; Sicainx. 



(.y Richards. Faun. Bor.-Amcr., Birds, p. 372 (1831); Nutt. Man. 



ii. p. 134 (1834) ; Audub. Orn. Bioyr. iii. p. 202 (1835); id. B. 



Amer. 8vo, p. 188, pi. 313 (1842); Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. 



p. 74 (1844, pt.); id. Gen. B. iii. p. 552 ("l84.i) ; lieic/ienb. Ilandh., 



Fulic^iah. 214. tig. 429, tab. 217. fig. 2s6 (1852); Bp. Consp. ii. 



p. 99 (1854) ; Cass, in Baird, Cass. ^- Laicr. B. N. Amer. p. fi54 



(1858); Blakist. Ibis, 18ti3, p. 128 (Fort Simpson); Sehl. Mus. 



JPays-Ba.", Kalli, p. 4 (1865) ; Dresser, Ibi)<, ISWi, p. 30 (S. Texas) ; 



Mus. C. Z. Cambr. iii. p. 182 (1872: Kan.<as) ; Snoto, B. Kansa-o, 

 p. 9 (1873) ; Iiid<iH\ Ann. Li/c. N. Y. x. p. 387 (1874) ; Coues, B. N.- 

 West, p. 530 (1874) ; Merrill, IVoc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 165 (1S78 : 



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