26 Monograph oj the Cranes. 



[Mr. T, A. Barratt, in Lis notes on the birds of the Lydenburg district 

 {Ibis, 1876, p. 209) : 



I have met with it in great quantities between Blomfontein and Potchefstroom ; 

 in the winter I have seen so many as fifty in a flock, beside many more in the neigh- 

 bouring vleys . . . Their long drooping feathers are readily bought by traders 

 from up the country, who sell or exchange them to the native tribes. They become 

 very tame in confinement, and will eat out of the hand and follow one about. I have 

 never shot them further north than within a few miles south of Lydenburg. 



A figure of the head of this species is given in Plate I, figure L] 



GRUS VIRGO (Pall.). 



THE DEMOISELLE CRANE. 



Grus NuMiDiCA, Virgo Numidica vulgo dicta., Briss. Orn., vol. v., 



p. 388. (1760.) 

 Aedea Virgo, Linn., Syst. Nat., vol. i., p. 234. (1766.) 

 Grus Virgo, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As., vol. ii., p. 108. (1811.) 

 Anthropoides VIRGO, Vieill. Nouv. Diet., vol. ii., p. 163. (1816.) 

 Scops Virgo, G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, p. 86. (1841.) 

 La Demoiselle de Numidie ; Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. vii., p. 313, 



pi. 15. (1780.) 



The Demoiselle op Numidia, Edwards, Nat. Hist. Bird., vol. iii., 

 p. 134. (1750.) 



This graceful species is figured by Edwards in 1750, pi. 134 ; and in Gould's 



