8. ANTHKOPOIDES. 271 



pp. 302,306 (Nepal Vallev) ; Butler, Cat. B. fiind ctc.^. fiO (1879) ; 



id. Cat. B. 8. Bomb. I'n's. p. 75 (1880) ; Scliinidt, P. Z. S. ls-<0, 



p. 315 ; Beid, Sir. F. x. p. 08 (1881 : Lucknow) ; Bidd. IbU, 



1881. p. 95 (Gilfrit); Giyl. i. c. p. 184; Davidson, Str. F. x. 



p. 320 (1882 : Khandeish) ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 353 ; Murraj/, 



Vertebr. Faun. Si7td, p. 234 (1884); Bor/d. Consp. A v. Imp. Russ. 



p. 109 (1884) ; Gir/l. Avif. Pal. p. 3()'0 (1880) ; Sahad. Flench. 



Ucc. Pal. p. 240 (1887) ; Tai/lur, Str. F. x. p. 530 (1887 : Orissa) ; 



Giffl.Avif. Pal. IstKesoc. i. p. 557 (1889), ii. p. 044 (1890); 



Brusina, Motr. (Orn. Croat.) p. 58 (1890 j ; Fridvalsky, Av. Huntj. 



p. 127 (1891). 

 Scops virgo, Gray, Lht Gen. 1841, p. 83; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 553 



(1845) ; Reichenb. llandb., Fulic. tab. cxxix. %. 1237 (1852). 

 Philoivhemou vii-fio, GUxjcr, Uandb. Katury. p. 438 (1842). 

 Grus ornata, Brclnn, Voyelf. p. 291 (1855). 

 Grus (Anthropoides) virgo, I)aoid Sf Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 436 (1877). 



Adult male. General colour above delicate slaty grey including 

 the wing-coverts; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, 

 washed with grey ; secondaries for the most part slate-colour, 

 blackish towards the ends, the innermost ones immensely elongated : 

 upper tail-coverts and tail slaty grey, somewhat blackish towards 

 the ends : crown of head light pearly grey ; lores and sides of the 

 crown black like the rest of the sides of the face ; nape, sides of 

 neck, throat, and fore neck black, the feathers of the latter part 

 being elongated, the grey of the back stretching upward on to the 

 neck, but not reaching as far as the nape, the black of the neck 

 intervening between the hind neck and crown ; feathers under the 

 eye white, as well as a distinct streak above the ear-coverts 

 developing into a beautiful lateral white tuft of elongated white 

 silky plumes ; breast and remainder of under surface of body pearly 

 grey : " bill dusky, olivaceous at the base, reddish at tip ; feet black ; 

 iris crimson " ( Von J/eiujUn). Total length about '33 inches, culmen 

 2"S. wing 19'8, tail 63, tarsus 7'5, middle toe and claw 3'5. 



Youni/. Similar to the adult, but without the lengthened plumes 

 of the inner secondaries ; head and sides of face grey like the back, 

 including the sliglitly elongated plumes of the ear-coverts : chin and 

 throat also grey, the feathers of the upper neck all round blackish, 

 the pointed feathers of the lower fore neck not elongated as in the 

 adult. 



Hah. Southern Europe, extending through Central Asia to 

 Northern China, wintering in Northern and North-eastern Africa, 

 and in N.W. India. 



«. Juv. St. Europe. Purchased. 



b, c. cJ $ ad. sk. Near Seville, Spain, April Tweeddale Coll. 

 (Howard Saunders). 



d. (S ad. sk. Cyprus, April 9 {Jl. GuUle- Lord Lilford [P.], 



mard). 



e. ^ ad. sk. Ordos, Central Asia (Prze- Seebohm Coll. 



trahki/). 



f. 9 ad. sk. Gil;_Mt, Sept. {J. Biddulph). Tweeddale Coll. 



<j. Ad. St. India. General Ilardwicke 



[P.]. 



