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brown, very smooth and polished ; feet dull reddish pink, varying 

 to dull red, somewhat brighter on the toes ; iris bright, very pale 

 yellow, in some birds almost silvery, in others a pinkish tinge " (A. 

 0. Hume). Total length about 54 inches, culmen 6-15, wing about 

 25, tail 10-15, tarsus 11-45, middle toe and claw 5. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but a little smaller. Total 

 length 50 inches, culmen 7-4, wing 23, tail 7-9, tarsus 10-4. 



Young. Similar to the adult, but the greater part of the feathers 

 •pale rust-colour, instead of white. 



Hah. From South-eastern Europe and Asia Minor to Western 

 Siberia and eastward to Japan, wintering in N.W. India and 

 China. 



a. Ad. st. 

 h. Imm. sk. 



c. Ad. sk. 

 d,e,f. Ad. sk. 

 9,h. d? ad.; 



i. 5 juv. sk. 

 k. (5 ad. ; I, m. 



Ad. sk. 



Russia. 



Barnaul, W. Siberia, 



3\mQ22{Dr.O.Fmsch). 

 Siberia. 

 Etawah. 

 Toman Jheel, Etawah, 



Feb. 

 Futtegurh, Oudh, Dec, 



Feb. [A. Anderson). 



J. Gould, Esq. 

 Geogr. Soc. Bremen 



[P.]. 

 Lord Lilford [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Type. 

 A. collaris. 



4. ANTIGONE. 



Antigone, Meichejih. Handb. Spec. Orn. p. xxiii (1852) 



Tianqe. Caspian Sea, Indian Peninsula, Burmese countries to 

 Cochin China, and south to Penang. Eastern Australia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Neck bare for half its length ; inner second- 



aries grev with no white bases. 



a'. A broad white band of feathers on the 

 upper portion of the neck, separating the 

 bare neck from the grey of the back ; 

 inner secondaries white collaris, p. 262. 



b'. No white band on the neck, the feathers 

 of which are entirely grey ; inner second- 

 aries grey, the bases also grey antif/one, p. 264. 



b. Neck feathered right up to the nape ; inner 



secondaries grey with white bases ctustralasiana, p. 265. 



1. Antigone collaris. 



La Grue a collier, JDnubent. PI. Enl. viii. pi. 865 ; Biiff. Hist. Nat. 



Ois. vii. p. 307 (1780). 

 Grus collaris, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 52 (1783). 

 Indian Crane, var. n, Lath. Gen. Sijn. iii. pt. i. p. 39 (1785). 

 Ardea antigune, var. fi, Gm. Syst Nat. i. p. 622 (1788). 

 Grus torquata, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 560 (1817) ; id. 



Gal. Ois. ii. p. 256 (1825) ; Wagl. Syst. Av., Grus, sp. 11 (1827). 

 Grus orientalis, Frankl. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 123. 



