AVES. 
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Strepsilas collaris — Turnstone. 
Plate LIX. fig. 2. 
Black, variegated with white, arid rusty orange above; breast, 
abdomen, and crissum, white; bill black; hides and legs 
orange. Eight inches long. Inhabits Europe. 
Genus 9. — GRUS.— Pallas. 
Generic Character. —Bill length of the head, longer in some 
species, robust, straight, compressed, somewhat obtuse at tip; 
lateral base of the mandible deeply furrowed; ridge elevated ; 
nostrils situated in the middle of the bill, closed at the back by 
a membrane ; ophthalmic region and base of the bill naked, and 
papillose, or covered with feathers-, legs long; lower half of the 
tibia naked; feet with three toes before and one behind, the 
intermediate one united to the external toe by a small rudimen¬ 
tary membrane, the interior one free; hallux articulated higher 
up on the tarsus; the remiges as long as the quills, the second, 
third, and fourth quills longest. 
Grus cinerea. — Common Crane. 
Plate LIX. fig. 3. 
Ash-coloured ; throat and occiput dusky; front of head and 
ophthalmic region black, and somewhat carinated, with a white 
space behind the eyes; crown divested of feathers and red; 
secondary feathers long, arched, and filamentary; bill greenish- 
black ; legs dusky black. Three feet ten inches long. Inhabits 
Europe. 
Genus 1.0.—ANTHROPOIDE S.— Vieillot. 
Generic Character. —Bill about the length of the head, later¬ 
ally compressed, entire, thick, convex, and furrowed near the 
point; nostrils concave, ovoid, open, situated in the ridge of the 
bill, and covered behind by the membrane ; tarsus long, smooth, 
and reticulated ; feet with three toes, united at the base by a 
membrane, the interior one free; wings long, first, second, third, 
and fourth quills longer than the others ; the second is prolonged 
beyond the first. 
