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Mr. F. E. Beddard on the 



Balearica is here selected as representing the typical Cranes, 

 for it shews no approximation to Aramus in tlie characters 

 to which I am about to call attention. It will be observed 



FiK. 5. 



Foot of Balearica (| nat. size). 



that in Aramus the length of the phalanges of the several 

 toes differs from that in Balearica : in the former genus the 

 second digit has its first phalanx of equal breadth, or nearly 

 so, to the corresponding phalanx of digit iii. ; moreover, 



