16 Monograph of the Crnnps. 



In this communication Mr. Bennett adopted the generic name Anthropoides, Vieill., 

 Mr. Gray advocating the retention of the name Ealeariea ; but iu the " Gardens and 

 Menagerie of the Zoological Society," 1835, Mr. Bennett described one species only, 

 which he called Balearica pavonica (Vig.) ; and for this he gave the following figure 

 of the Southern species ! 



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Neither does the name appear to have been employed by the elder Lichtenstein ; for 

 the " Cat. Dupt. Berl. Mus. 1793," quoted by Layard in his " Birds of South Africa," 

 appears to be a combination of the Latinized title of " Verzcichuiss der Doubletten des 

 zoologischen Museums der kouigl. Uuiversitat zu Berlin, von Dr. H. Lichstenstein," 

 Berlin, 1823, in which the species is not named, with the date of the following — 

 " Catalogus rerum naturalium i-arissimarum, Hamburgi, d. xxi. October, 1793, auctionis 

 lege distrahendarum," with preface by M. Ant. Aug. Hen. Lichtenstein, Rector der 

 Johannis-Schule, Berlin. A copy of the latter catalogue exists in the Banksian Library; 

 and in it the Western Crowned Crane is included under the generic name of Ardea, and 

 the Kaffir Crane is described as follows : — 



"284 A. ! ! Ardea chrysopelargus,5!o?)is. Ardea oculortim area nuda; corpore supra item 

 collo et pectore exfnsco ceneo ; subtus alho. Rostrum fere 10 pollices longum ruhnim 

 hasi exalbidum. Nares Uneares tdtra 4 pollices longm, mandihulem superiorem in 

 medio quasi sulco pervio dirimuni. Gence et collum purpureo nitore fulgent, religmim 

 corpus, quatenus ex ceneo fuscum est viridi splendore renidet. Bemiges nigrce; 

 rectrices supra sunt cenece, infra xd venter et crissum albent. Pedes 29 pollices longi, 

 pallide rubri. Bigiti antici has! palmati, posticus brevis terrain tamen attigens. 

 Longittido universa 4 pedum 65 polUcum. Habiiat in terra Cafrorum" 

 Consequently it appears that, if the rules of the usually accepted code of nomen- 

 clature are to be carried out, the name of this species must be changed from B. regulorum 

 to Balearica chrysopelargus (Licht.) — the meaningless name regulorum being apparently, 

 as suggested by Mr. Sclater, a corruption of the term octdorum in A. A. H. Lichten- 

 stein's description. (W. B. Tegetmeier in Proc. Zool. Soc, 1880, p. 93.)] 



This is the larger and moi'e handsome of the two species, and it 

 has a most conspicuously-developed throat-wattle in both seses, whereas in 

 the other the same caruncle exists, but is so small as to pass unnoticed 

 in the living bird. The clothing plumage is also differently coloured. 

 In B. chrysopelargus the predominant hue is grey, pale on the neck, and 



