TETRAPTERTX. ANTHROPOIDES. 95 



Genus TETRAPTERYX, Thunh. 



Tetrapteryx paradisea (Licht.). 



Grus paradisea, Thien. Fortj>/ia>iz. r/es. Tor/, tab. Ixxi. fig. 5 (18-45-54). 



Anthropoides stanleyanus, Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 300. 



Anthvopoides paradisea, Sharpie, ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 628 



(1875-84). 

 Tetraptervx paradisea, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. p. 268 (1894); id. 



Han'd-l. i. p. 178 (1899). 



The eggs of the Stanley Crane are of a narrow oval form, but a few 

 are compressed and somewhat pointed at the larger end. They have a 

 varying amount of gloss. Many of the specimens in the Collection 

 resemble the egg of Biigeranvs carunculatus already described ; 

 others have a cream-coloured or very pale buff ground, less densely 

 marked with umber-brown and purple, and others again have the 

 markings sparse, and of a pale brown colour with obsolete under- 

 lying purple blotches. They measure from 3'0 to 3*97 in length, 

 and from 2*27 to 2*4 in breadth. 



2. South Africa. Old Collection. 



1. South Africa. Gould Coll. 



2. South Africa. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. South Africa. E. L. Lavard, Esq. [P.]. 



1. Bloemfontein, 5th Dec. F. A. Barratt, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Laid in confinement (Zool. Gardens, Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Loudon). 



Genus ANTHROPOIDES, V. 

 Anthropoides virgo {Linn.). 



Grus virgo, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Voff. tab. Ixxi. fig. 4 (1845-54) ; Bree,. 

 Birds Eur. iv. p. 27, pi. — (1867) ; Dresser, Birds Bur. vii. p. 353 

 (1879); Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 575, pl. 30 (1884); id. Eggs 

 of Brit. Birds, p. 156, pl. 46. fig. 2 (lb96). 



Anthropoides virgo, Baedeker, Bier Eur. J'iig. tab. 13. fig. 1 (1855-63) ; 

 Bree, t. c. 2nd ed. v. p. 27, pl. — (1876) ; Hume ^- Marsh. Game 

 Birds hid. iii. p. 31 (1880) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. p. 269^ 

 (1894) ; id. Hand-l. i, p. 179 (1899). 



The eggs of the Demoiselle Crane are so similar to those of the 

 Common Crane that no character bj' which they may be separated 

 can be pointed out, except size. They are perhaps, on the whole, 

 somewhat more richly coloured than those of the Common Crane. 

 They measure from 2-93 to 3'57 in length, and from I'bo to 2*2 

 in breadth. 



1. Laid in confinement (Zool. Gardens, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



London). 

 1. Kustendji, Dobrudscha, 10th May Seebohm Coll. 



(Har'f/itt Coll.). 

 1. Kustendji (Dr. Cullen: Hargit.t Seebohm Coll. 



Coll.). 

 1. Kustendji, 15th May. Seebohm Coll. 



