264 GRurD^. 



culmen 6-5, wing about 23, tail 9-2, tarsus 11, middle toe and 

 claw 5-8. 



Hah. Astrachan and shores of the Caspian Sea. Indian Peninsula, 

 east to the neighbourhood of Calcutta and south to Xhandeish. 



2. Antigone antigone. 



The Greater Indian Crane, Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. i. p. 4-5, pi. 45 



(174.3). 

 La Grue des Indes Orientales, Briss. Orn. x. p. 378 (1760). 

 Ardea antigone, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 235 (176G) ; G'?h. Syst. Nat. i. 



p. 622 (1788). 

 Indian Crane, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. i. p. .38 (1785). 

 Grus antigone, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 660 (1817); 



Waql. Si/st. Av., Ctrus, sp. 10 (1827) ; Gray, List Gralla; Brit. Mus. 



p. 74 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 552 (]'845) ; Blyth, B. Burm. 



p. 157 (1875) ; Gates, iStr. F. v. p. 164 (1877 : Lower Pegu, 



nesting) ; Wardlaiv Ramsay, Ibis, ] 877, p. 468 (Tonghoo: breeding) ; 



Hmne i^- Davis. Str. F. vi. p. 468 (1878 : Sittang and Salween 



Rivers); Anderson, Hep. Exped. Yunnan, Zool. p. 684 (1878: 



Tsitkau); Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 112 (1879, pt.) ; Gates, Str. F. 



X. p. 238 (1882) ; id. Handb. B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 352 (1883) ; id. 



Hume's Nests Sf Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 372 (1890, pt.). 

 Antigone antigone, -B/j. Cunsp. Ac. ii. p. 100 (1854, pt.). 



Adult male. Similar to A. collaris, but having pearly grej* inner 

 secondaries instead of white, and having the whole ofthe neck below 

 the bare or granulated portion grey, and not white as in A. col- 

 laris : " bill and coronal skin greenish glaucous ; skin of the face 

 and neck pale brick-red ; legs fleshy pink, brownish in front ; iris 

 reddish orange " (B. G. Wardlaiv Ilamsay). Total length about 

 40 inches, culmen 7 "2, wing about 25, tail 9, tarsus 12, middle toe 

 and claw 5-4. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length about 40 inches, 

 culmen 6-9, wing about 24, tail S'4, tarsus 12-5, middle toe and 

 claw 4-5. 



Yoimg. Similar to the adult, but having the grey plumage 

 somewhat more washed with rusty brown, the whole of the head 

 and upper part of the neck covered with rust-coloured feathers. 



Mr. Gates follows Blyth in supposing that the white neck in the 

 species of Antigone is characteristic of the breeding-season. I do 

 not agree with this theory, especially as I find that all the dark- 

 coloured specimens belong to the Burmese couutries, and the light 

 ones to India. 



