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p. 76 en. Guerdh-i:i-Tlmrf, April) ; Wright, Ihis, 18G4, p. 142 

 (not in 31alta); Antin. Cat. d('.<scr. Uvc. p. 100 (18(J4) ; Loche, 

 H.rjil. 6V(". Al(j6r.,0is. ii. p. 140 (1867); Doderl. Avif. Skil. 

 p. 208(1809: accidental in Sicily); Saund. Iljis, 1871, p. 3!»0; 

 Gray, Uand-l. B. iii. p. I'o, no. l60S)4 (1871) ; llewil. Orn. X.O.- 

 Afr. ii. pt. 1, p. li^oS (187:5) ; Vg^hrr, Ibis, 1874, p. 73 (1!. Volta) ; 

 Schmidt, r. Z. S. 1880, p. ^IC); Gi,//. Iljk, 1881, p. 180; Tef/ftin. 

 ed. ninth's Moil. Cranes, p. 10(1881); Hartert, J. f. 0. L8-<C,, 

 p. 608 (Benue Kiver) ; Salvad. Blench. Ucc. Ital. p. 241 (1887) ; 

 Meyer, Abbild. Voyel-Skel. Lief. xi. Taf. cvi. (1886). 



Grus pavonina, Waqler, Syst. Av. Grus, sp. 1 (1827, pt. ) ; Schl. Mug. 

 Fays-Bas, i;alli,"p. 7 (1807, pt.) ; Hu.vleii, P. Z. 8. 1807, p. 421): 

 Finsch if Hart I. Vog. Ostafr. p. 607 (1870, pt.) ; R. Gray, Ibis, 

 1872, p. 201 (Ayr). 



Autbropoides pavonina, Bennett, P. Z. S. 18.33, p. 118 (W. Africa). 



Geranarchus pavonina, Gloger, Handb. Naturg. p. 438 (1842). 



Adult. General colour above, including the lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts, black, the feathers pointed and having a 

 slight green tinge ; scapulars like the back ; wing-coverts white, 

 the inner greater coverts straw-coloured and composed of disinte- 

 grated plumes ; bastard-wing and jjrimary-coverts also white ; 

 ])rimarics black, secondaries maroon-chestnut, the feathers of the 

 innermost secondaries somewhat decomposed ; tail-feathers black, 

 with a greenish gloss ; crown of head covered with a patch of 

 velvet}' bkick plumes ; occiput with a tuft of straw-like bristles 

 tipi)ed with black ; lores and sides of face bare, with a line of 

 sooty-black feathers from the sides of the hinder crown behind the 

 ear-coverts ; cheeks also bare ; chin and upper throat sparsely 

 covered with black down ; lower throat with wattles ; nape and 

 neck all round silvery-grey, the feathers elongated and lanceolate, 

 especially on the lower hind neck, throat, and fore neck ; remainder 

 of under surface of body dark slaty grey, with pearly-grey centres 

 to the feathers, which arc lanceolate in shape; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries white ; quills below black, the secondaries maroon 

 below : " bare sides of face particoloured, the lower part pinkish, 

 the upper part white slightly shaded with pink ; throat rather rosy ; 

 bill blackish, horn-coloured at tip : feet bluish black ; iris whitish " 

 (von Ilenijlin). Total length 37 inches, culmen 2-7, wing about 

 23, tail 9, tarsus 8. 



Young. Blackish above, all tlie feathers broadly margined with 

 rufous ; head and neck sandy rufous ; crown of bead chestnut, mottled 

 with black bases to the downy feathers ; lores only bare ; rest of 

 sides of face and ear-coverts covered with isabelline down ; the quills 

 as in the adult, but with black ends to the maroon secondaries, all 

 the white wing-coverts broadly edged with rufons and with black 

 eubterminal markings ; the feathers of the under surface blackish, 

 with broad sandy-buff margins. 



llah. West Africa from Senegal to the Lakes of the Sudan and 

 the rivers of the West Coast, extending to the lakes of Abys.-iniu 

 and the Upper Nile district. In the Leiden Museum is a specimeu 

 from Senaar, which is very small: wing 9-9 inches, tarsus 0-9. 



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