GRUID33 BALEAIUCA 285 



the face white, with a triangular band of vermilion above ; throat 

 lappet vermilion. 



Length 39-0 ; wing 22-5 ; tail 10-0 ; tarsus 7-0 ; middle toe 4-0 ; 

 culmen 2-5. 



A young bird has the head and neck sandy-rufous ; the crown of 

 the head chestnut mottled with black bases to the downy feathers, 

 only the lores are bare, the rest of the sides of the face and ear- 



FIG. 92. Head of Balcarica regnloriim. x 



coverts being covered with isabelline down ; the back is blackish, 

 the feathers margined with rufous ; the white wing-coverts are also 

 margined with rufous and have black subterminal margins ; beneath 

 blackish with sandy-buff margins. Bill black, base of the lower 

 mandible pale ; bare skin between the eye and the base of the bill 

 black ; the cheeks, which are bare in the adult, thickly clothed with 

 yellowish-white down ; legs and feet ashy black. 



Distribution. The Crowned Crane is found only in the eastern 



