GRUID^E BUGERANUS 279 



Natal B. p. 172 (1899); Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 263; Reiclu-noio, 

 Vog. Afr. i. p. 262 (1900) ; Oates, Cat. B. Eggs, ii, pp. 94, 370 (1902). 

 Laomedontia carunculata, Butler, Feilden and Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 342. 

 "Wattled," "Bell," or sometimes "Kaffir Crane" of Colonists; 

 " Igwampi" of Amaxosa (Stanford). 



Description. Adult. Crown of the head dark slate, sharply 

 demarcated from the white of the cheeks ; throat and neck all round 

 also white, extending down to the upper part of the breast, where 

 the white feathers form long overhanging plumes ; mantle slaty-black, 

 becoming silvery-grey on the scapulars and wing-coverts ; primaries 

 and secondaries, tail-coverts and tail black ; the inner secondaries 

 elongated and produced to beyond the level of the tail ; below black 

 throughout. Sides of the face from in front of and below the eye 



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 FIG. 90. Head of Bugeranus carunculatus. x 



naked ; this together with the base of the beak as far forward as the 

 nostrils covered with little rounded warts ; below the eye on the 

 throat two flat lappets bare along the anterior edge, clothed behind 

 with white feathers. 



Iris orange-yellow, bill light reddish-brown, warty skin at its 

 base dull red, legs and toes black. 



Length about 56'0 ; wing 26-5, to end of longest secondaries 

 34-0 ; tail 11-0 ; culmen 7'0 ; tarsus 12-0 ; middle toe 5. 



A younger bird in the South African Museum has the skin at 

 the side of the face merely corrugated, while the chin-lappets are 



