274 GEUID^. 



«, b. Juv. St, West Africa. Old Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Accra, July {J. Smith), Shelley Coll. 



(/. Sternum. Eyton Coll. 



2. Balearica chrysopelargus. 



The Crowned African Crane, pt., Edivards, Nat. Hist. B. iv. p. 192, 



pi. 192 (1751). 

 L'Oiseau Royale male, Dauhent. PI. Enl. viii. pi. 26-5. 

 Ardea chrysopelargus, Licht. Cat. 7-ei: Nat. Humh. p. 29 (1793). 

 Anthropoi'des regulorum, Beimett, P. Z. S. 18.33, p. 118. 

 Grus regulorum, Licht. Eat. Toqel Koffernl. p. 19 (1842) ; Finsch Sr 



Hartl. Voff. Ostafr. p. 669 (1870). 

 Balearica regulorum. Gray, List Grallce Brit. 3Tm.' p. 75 (1844) ; 

 id. Gen. B. iii. p. 553 (1845) ; J. E. Gray, Knoicsl. Menaff. 

 pi. 13 (1851); Reichenb. Handb., Fulic. tab. ccxvi. figs. 2855-56 

 (1852); Bji. Co72Sp. ii. p. 102 (18.54); Eirk, Ibis, 1864, p. .331 

 (Zambesi) : Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 304 (1867) ; Gurney,Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 255 (Natal); Layard, Ibis, 1869, p. 376 (egg: Mabura's 

 country) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 264 (Vaal liiver) ; Gray, Hand-l. 

 B. iii. p. 25, no. 10095 (1871) ; Gurney in Anderss. B. I)am. Ld. 

 p. 279 (1872) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1873, p. 286 (Mooi River, breeding), 

 1874, p. 106 (Potcbefstroom) ; Buckley, t. c. p. 389 (Transvaal) ; 

 Garrod, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 277; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 209 (Lyden- 

 burg) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1877, p. 348 (Transvaal) : Socage, Orn. Anyola, 

 p. 435 (1881: Humbe) ; Schmidt, P. Z. S. 1880,' p. 315; Holvb 

 Sr Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Sudafr. p. 256 (1882 : C. Transvaal ; Orange 

 Free State); Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 363 (Mashona-land). 

 Grus pavonina, pt., Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ralli, p. 7 (1865). 

 Ardea pavouia, Chapm. Trav. S. Afr. ii. App. p. 417 (1868). 

 Balearica chrysopelargus, Tegetm. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 93 ; id. ed. 

 Blyih's Mon. Cranes, p. 15 (1881) ; Butler, Feilden, Sf Beid, Zool. 

 1882, p. 342 (Newcastle) ; Beid, Ibis, 1883, p. 225 (Natal, uestins) ; 

 SharjJe, ed. Layarcts B. S. Afr. p. 629 (1884). 



Adult. Similar to B. pavonina, but distinguished by its dark 

 slaty-grey colour, the neck all round being slaty grey like the rest 

 of the under surface, and not pearly grey : " bill black ; tarsi and 

 feetblack ; iris light ash-colour " {T. Ayres) : bare sides of face white, 

 with a triangular band of vermilion above the bare white face ; 

 throat-wattlo also vermilion {Mvs. Lugd.). Total length 34 inches, 

 culmen 2-6, wing 2-25, tail 9, tarsus 8, middle toe and claw 4-4. 



Young. Blackish above, all the feathers broadly margined with 

 nifous ; head and neck sandy rufous ; crown of head chestnut, 

 mottled with black bases to the downy feathers ; lores only bare ; 

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

 quills as in the adult, but with black ends to the maroon second- 

 aries ; all the white wing-coverts broadly edged with rufous, with 

 black subtcrminal markings ; feathers of the under surface blackish, 

 with broad sandy-buff margins : " bill black, the base of the lower 

 mandible pale ; bare skin between the bill and the eye black, the 

 adjacent space, which is occupied by the wattles in the adult, 

 thickly clothed with short yellowish-white down ; legs and feet 

 ashy black : iris light ash-colour " {T. Ayres). 



