GRUS. 



Eastern Turkistan and Siberia. Uncommon in Sind. 

 it. Mr. Hume has however seen and recorded it. 



601 



I have never met with 



Grus cinerea. 



1279. GrUS Cinerea (Bechst.), Bodd. PL En. 769; Gould, B. Eur. 

 pi. 270; Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 865 ; Sir. F. i. p. 235; iv. p. 15 ; Murray, 

 Hdbk., ZooL, tyc., Sind, p. 213 ; id., Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 237; Hume and 

 Marsh., Game Birds ii. p. 92 (Koonj, Sind ; Railing, N. India). The 

 COMMON CRANE. 



Forehead to the middle of the crown covered with black hairy down, 

 through which the red skin shows ; behind this nearly bare and entirely so for 

 about two inches on the nape, which is ash grey ; chin, throat and foreneck 

 black ; a broad white streak from behind the eye, extending along the back of 

 the neck from below the nape and partly on the sides ; lores and cheeks 

 black ; upper and lower surface of the body dark bluish ashy ; greater wing 

 coverts dull black ; secondaries and tertiaries grey and tipped with black, 

 the latter in texture resembling the plumes of the ostrich, narrowing to a point, 

 forming an elegant tuft of loose feathers, curled at the ends and falling grace- 

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