Balearica chrysopelargitg. 



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their lower extremity to the first pair of true ribs. This I have observed 

 in three or four specimens of B. pavonina, and am unaware of any other 

 bird in which these muscles are similarly attached. They perch more 

 freely than do other cranes ; both species are African, one of them 

 occasionally straying into Europe. Buffon supposed the two species to be 

 male and female of the same ; but they inhabit different parts of Africa, 

 and paired couples of each of them may be commonly seen in vivaria, the 

 male being conspicuously larger than his mate. Both species were figured 

 by Edwards in 1751, pi. 192. They are well-distinguished though closely 

 akin to each other. 



Stebnum or Baleakica chuysopelabgus. 



BALEARICA CHRYS OPEL ARGUS (Light.). 

 THE KAFFIR UKANE. 

 Aedba cheysopelargus, Licht. Cat. rer. nat. rar. (1793.) 

 Antheopoides eeguloedm, Bennett, P.Z.S., 1833, p. 118. 

 L'OiSEAU Royal, Buff. PI. Enl. pi. 265. (1783.) 

 The Kafpie or Ceowned Ceanb of the colonists. 



[The following communication on the name of this species was read 

 before the Zoological Society, February 17th, 1880 : 



The Kaffir Crane is usually termed Balearica regidomm (Licht.), apparently on the 

 authority of Mr. E. T. Bennett, Vice-Secretary of this Society, who, at the meeting 

 held on November 12, 1833, "exhibited specimens of Crowned Cranes from Northern 

 and from Southern Africa, with the view of illustrating the characters which distinguish 

 as species the birds from these several localities. Their specific distinction, he stated, 

 on the authority of Professor Lichtenstein, had been pointed out, nearly thirty years 

 since, by the Professor's father, who gave to the Cape bird the name of Ortis regulonim ; 

 this distinction has, howeve:', not been generally known among ornithologists, although 

 to those connected with the Society it has for some time been familiar, from observa- 

 tion both of numerous skins and of living individuals. In the bird of North Africa, 

 for which the specific name of pavonimis will be retained, the wattle is small, and there 

 is much red occupying the lower two thirds of the naked cheeks ; in that of South 

 Africa the wattle is large, and the cheeks are white, except in a small space at their 

 upper part; the neck also is of a much paler elate-colour than that of the North -Africau 

 species :" (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 118.) 



