Griis fraterculus. 



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North America," pi. 37. American Pigmy Crane. This little known but 

 undoubted species was collected near San Antonio de Bixar, Texas, by Mr. 

 H. E. Dresser, who has favoured me with the following description of his 

 specimen : " Dull blue-grey or ashy blue ; feathers on the back edged and 

 washed with dull brown ; neck and under parts pure ashy blue ; throat and 

 chin very pale ; primaries black, shafts white, duller in colour towards the 

 tips ; top of head bare to the centre of the crown, or nearly thus far, and 

 covered sparingly with hairs. Culmen, 4'3in. ; wing, 17"5in.; tail, 6in. ; 

 tarsus, 7"6in. ; inner secondaries slightly curved, elongated, extending Sin. 

 beyond the primaries.'" 



There can be little or no doubt that this and the preceding species have 

 been commonly and habitually confounded hitherto with G. canadensis; 

 the three being much alike in plumage, but distinguishable by their 

 respective sizes, and doubtless by other details when properly compared 

 together, as by the reduced nude coronal patch of G. schlegelii as compared 

 with that of G. canadensis. 



