6. BroERwrs. 267 



(E. BJi/th). Total length 40 inches, ciilmen 6-5, wing about 23, 

 tail about S"5, tarsus 11, middle toe and claw 4-5. 



yestlimj. Coloured witli tawny-coloured down; darker and more 

 reddish brown on the middle of the back, the head and neck rather 

 paler and more rusty, the under surface of the body whiter, the 

 sides of the body and fore neck tawny {Mas. Lmjd.). 



llah. Eastern Siberia from Lake Baikal to the Corea and Japan, 

 south to the Yangtze basin in winter. 



c\b. (^2 ad. sk. Nagasaki, Japan, Feb. 19. F. Pvinger, E^q. [P.]. 



c. 2 ad. sk. ' Japan. Lord Lilford [P.]. 



6. BUGERANTJS. ^ 



Type. 

 Bugeranus, Gloger, Handb. Naturij. p. 440 (1842) .". B. caruuculatus. 

 Laomedontia, Heickenb. Handb. Spec. Orn. p. xxiii 



( ] 85:^) B. caruuculatus. 



linnr/e. Confined to South Africa. . . • 



1. Bugeranus carunculatus. 



Wattled Heron, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. Bi, pi. Ixxvii. (178o). 

 Ardea carunculata, Gm. Sii-it. Nat. i. p. 643 (1788) ; Vieill. Gal. 



Ois. ii. Suppl. pi. 20 (1825). 

 Grus carunculata, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xu'i. p. 5.59 C1817) ; 



id. Enc. Meth. p. 1140, pi. 53. fig. 3 (1823) ; Waiiler, Syst. Av., 



Grus, sp. 4 (1827); Less. Traiti d'Orn. p. 58G (lVi31) : Guerin, 



Ictmocjr. Begne An. pi. 31; fig. 3 ; Gray, Lid Grallce Brit. Miis. 



p. 74 (1844) ; id. 4- Mitchell, Gen. B. iii. p. 552, pi. 149 (1845) ; 



JRiipp. Si/st. Uebers. p. 120 (1845) ; Heiujl. Si/st. Uehers. p. 57. 

 • (1850) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1804, p. 355 (Interior "of Natal) ; Schl. 



Mus. Pa>/s-Bas, I^alli, p. 5 (1805): La,/ard. B. S. Afr. p. 302 



(1807) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1808, p. 467 (Vaal River, breed! nL') : Gra,/, 



Hand-l. B. iii. p. 24, no. 10087 {\S1\) ;' Finsch Sf Hart/. Vog. 

 ►• Ostafr. p. 670 (1870: ^lozanibiqiie) : Heuf/l. Orn. X.O.-Afr. 



ii. pt. 1, p.»12.")3 (1873) ; Mont. Anr/ola, ii. p. 203 (1875V: Forbes, 



P. Z. S. 1877, p. 307 ; Ter/etyn. ed. Blyth's Mon.Cranes, p. 33 (1881) ; 

 • Holtib ^- Peh. Beifr. Orn. Sudafr. p. 247 (1882: Fish River); 



ShelU'i/, Ibis, 1882, p. 303 (Ma-hona Land) : Forbes, P. Z. 5.1882, 



p. 352 ; Sha)-j)e, ed. Lai/ard\i B. S. Afj: p. 626 (1884) ; Hartert, 



Kat. Vogels. Senck. Mus. p. 209 (1891). 

 Ardea palearis, Forster, Icon, ined, no. 115 ; id. Descr. Aniin. p. 47 



(1844). ' 

 Bugeranus carunculatus, Gloger, Handl>. Xaturg. p. 440 (1842) ; 



^Gurney in Ander.ss. B. iJamara Ld. p. 278 (1872). , 

 Laomedontia ca»iiuculata, Beichenb. Handb. Spec. Orn. p. xxiii 



(1850) ; id. Handb., Fidic. tab. cxxvii. tig. 431 (18.-)2) : B/>. Con.y>. 



Av. ii. p. 100 ( 1854) ; Bocar/e, Orn. Angola, p. 4.36 (1881: Ihuube) ; 



Butler, Feilden, 4" Beid, Zool. 1882, p. 342 (Newcastle District) ; 



Snnza, Jorn. Li.tb. xi. p. 80 (1886 : ZaAlx\<i). 

 "Wattled Crane, Chapm. Trav. S. Afr. ii. App. p. 417 (180)8). 



Adult. General colour above dsjrk ashy grey ; lower back, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and tail black ; mantle .blackish brown, this 



