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CRANES. 



THE next form has given some difficulty in assigning 

 it a situation ; it is more varied in habits and feeding, 

 and, in internal structure, seems to approach nearer 

 the Rasores than the typical Grallatores; but the 

 British bird, when viewed in conjunction with the 

 foreign species, and some of those large birds which 

 were formerly associated with the genus, will be 

 found to take its place, and fill up a wanting gap 

 among the Ardeadce. 



GRUS, Pallas Generic characters. Bill strong, 

 nearly straight, compressed, pointed ; nostrils 

 large and pervious ; legs long, much of the 

 tibiae naked; toes strong, but comparatively 

 short, the hinder toe short, articulated, high on 

 the tarsus ; wings ample, rather rounded, third 

 quill longest; tertial feathers often elongated. 



Types, G. cinerea, Americana. Europe, Asia, 

 America. 



