266 • GRTJID^. 



5. PSEUDOGERANUS. „ 



Type. 

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



p. xxxvii (March' 28, 1893) 'P. leucaucben. 



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

 1. Pseudogeranus leucauchen. 



CTrus aDtigone (nee L.), Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. ii. p. 102 (1811);. 



Dyboivski ^ Parvex, J. f. O. 1868, p. 3.37 (Darasuu) ; Seed. Ibis, 



1879, p. 28. 

 ? Grus vipio. Pall. i. c. p. Ill (1811,=jxiv. le.ste Bor/d.) *. 

 Gnis leucauchen, Temm.' PI. Col. v. pi. 449 (18.38); Gray, List 



Grullce Brit. Mus. p. 74 (1844 : Japan) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 552 



(1845) ; Tenmi. ^- Schl. Faun. Jap. p. 119 (1850) ; Radde, Pels. 



Sibir., Vog. p. 314, Taf. 14. fig. 2 (1863; e^g^); Swinh. P. Z. S. 

 ' 1871, p. 402; Tacz.J.f. O.' 1873, p. 100 (Kiiltuk: breeding), 



1874, p. 336 ; Ehces, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 469 ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zuol. 



France,!, p. 246 (1876: Dauria, Amur, Ussuri); David Sf Oust. 



Ois. Chine, p. 435 (1877) ; Blakist. Sf Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 224 



(Japan : migrant) ; Tegetm. ed. BlytKs Monogr. Cranes, p. 35 



(1881); Blakist. Amended List, p. 12 (1884: Japan generally), 



p. 42 (Nagasaki) ; Bogd. Consp. Av. Imp. P-)ss. p. 10'7 (1884) ; 

 ■ Seel. Ibis, 1884, p. 177 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 611, 1888, p. 468 



(Corea) ; Seeb. B. Japati. Emp. p. 352 (1890). 

 Scops vipio. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 553 (1845). 

 Grus vipio, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 98 (1854) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, 



Ealli, p. 3 (1805) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 2.4, no. 10080 (1871) ; 



.Styan, Ibis, 1891, pp. 329, 502 (Lower Yangtze). 

 Antigone leucauchen, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 661 (1854). 

 Grus, sp. incogn., Blakist. i§- I^yer, Ibis, 1878, p. 22o. ' . 



Pseudogeranus leucauchen, Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. C. i. p. xxxvii (1893). 



Adult. General colour above slaty grej', -with obscure margins 

 of lighter ashy grey; -wing-coverts lighter than .the back, the 

 median and greater coverts especially so, the latter being whiie at 

 the ends ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish, with a slight 

 ashy shade, the small coverts preceding the primary-coverts pearly 

 grey ; primaries black with white shafts, the secondaries black 

 with white bases, the' inner elongated secondaries being white and 

 falcate ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts rather darker 

 slate-colour, as also the base of the tail : tail-feathers dark slaty 

 grey, with a broad terminal band of black ; fore part of crown, 

 sides of face, and Jores bare, with bristly black hairs ; ear-coverts 

 with a patch of dull ashy feathers ; hinder crown white, like the 

 hind neck, sides of upper neck, and throat ; remainder of sides 

 of neck and under surface of body from the lower throat downwards 

 dark slaty grey ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and 

 hynopteral plumes paler ashy grey : " bill dull green ; legs dull 

 pink; iris bright orange-yellow; bare "face crimson and papillose" 



* Pallas has derivfid his description from Gmelin's manuscript, and it is 

 quite uncertain from what species it was taken, so that I think it is best to tall 

 back upon the more certain one oi leucauche/i. . 



