268 GRUID^. 



colour overspreading the upper back ; wing-coverts like the hack, 

 the greater series a little lighter and more pearly grey ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, dusted with ashy grey ; 

 secondaries for the most part ashy grey, blackish at the ends, the 

 innermost ones enormously produced ; crown of head slaty grey ; 

 entire neck from the nape to the mantle, sides of face, throat, and 

 chest white, the feathers of the latter very much elongated ; on 

 either side of the throat a white-feathered lappet ; the lores, the 

 base of the bill, as far as the nostrils, and fore part of cheeks very 

 coarsely granulated ; breast and remainder of under surface, in- 

 cluding the under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries, 

 grey : " bill light reddish brown ; bare warty skin at base of bill 

 dull red ; thighs, tarsi, and feet black ; iris orange-yellow " ( T. 

 Ai/res). Total length about 54 inches, culmen 65, wing about 30, 

 tail 11, tarsus 12'3, middle toe and claw 6-8. 



Hab. South Africa, from the Eastern Cape Colony north to the 

 Zambesi and west to Damara-land and Benguela. Kiippell's state- 

 ment that the species is found in Shoa needs confirmation. 



a. Ad. st. South Africa. Dr. Krauss [C.]. 



b, c. Ad. sk. South Africa, Purchased. 

 d. Ad. sk. Natal. Purchased. 



7. TETRAPTERYX. „ 



Type. 

 Tetrapteryx, Thimb. K. Yet. Ah. Forh. Sfockh. 1818, 



p. 242 '. T. paradiseus. 



Geranus, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 661, note (1854) T. paradiseus. 



Range. Confined to South Africa. 



1. Tetrapteryx paradisea. 



Ardea paradisea, Licht. Cat. Her. Eariss. Hamb, p. 28 (179.3) ; id. 



Verz. Doubl. p. 78 (1823 : Kaffi-aria). 

 Tetrapteryx capensis, Thnnb. K. Vete?isk, Akad. Forh. 1818, p. 242, 



t. 8. 

 Authropoides stanleyanus, Vig. Zool. Journ. ii. p. 234, pi. 8 (1826) ; 



Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 303 (1867) ; Chapm. Trav. S. Afr. ii. App. 



p. 417 (1868) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 300 (Transvaal: breeding) ; 



Layard, t. c. p. 376 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 269 (Mooi and Vaal 



Rivers) ; BarraU, Ibis, 1876, p. 209 (Lydenburg ; Bloemfoutein ; 



Potchefstroom). 

 Grus stanleyana, Wagl. Syst. Av., Grus, sp. 3 (1827). 

 Grus paradisea, Wagl. t. c. sp. 8; Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 54 (1859: 



Mossel Bav) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, RalU, p. 6 (I860) ; Finsch ^ 



Hartl. VSq. Ostafr. p. 671 (1870); Teqetm. ed. Blyth's Man. 



Cranes, p.' 23 (1881); Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 363 (Mashona) ; 



Butler, Feilden, ^- Reid, Zool. 1882, p. .342 (Newcastle distr.). 

 Grus capensis, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 587 (1831). 

 Anthropoides paradisea, Less. t. c. p. 587 : Martin, P. Z. S. 18.j6, 



p. 30 ; Gray, Lid. Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 75 (1844) : id. Hand-l. B. 



iii. p. 2.5,no. 10093 (1871) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. 8. Afr. p. 628 



(1884). 

 Scops paradisea, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 563 (1845). 



