190 GRUIDJE. 



of Xorth-easfern'Asia. Anderson also at Ponsee, west of Bhtimo; 

 saw flocks of Cranes flying towards Burma in March. He took 

 them for G. antigone (6r. sharpii), but that species is not known to 

 collect in flecks. Captain Couch man (Jour. Bom. N. H. 8oc. vii, 

 p. 450) saw Cranes in the marshes near Myothit, like G. cinerevs 

 in colour, shape, and call, but with a scarlet hood or crest. Our 

 knowledge of the Cranes of Upper Burma is evidently still 

 imperfect. 



Genus ANTHROPOIDES, Vieillot, 1816. 



The smallest Indian Crane, the Demoiselle, forms the type of n 

 well-marked genus, having the bill and legs shorter in proportion 

 than in Grus ; the head feathered throughout, with, on each side, 

 from behind the ear-coverts, a white plume or aigrette of feathers 

 with dissociated webs. The feathers of the lower fore neck 

 lanceolate and elongate, projecting in front of the breast. 

 Tertiary quills much lengthened. 



1411. Anthropoides virgo. The Demoiselle Crane. 

 (Fig. 41, p. Ib4.) 



Ardea vlrgo, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 234 (1766). 



Grus vivgo, Full. Zooyr. Eos&o-Asiat . ii, p. 108; Scully, Ibis, 1881. 

 p. 588. 



p. 263 ; Hume, Cat. no. 866; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 352 ; Hume 

 Marsh. Game B. iii, p. 31, pi. : Bidtlulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 95; 

 Butler, S. F. ix, p. 427 ; Reid, IS. F. x, p. 68 ; Davidson, ibid. p. 320; 

 Barnes, Birds B^m. p. 342 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xxiii, p. 269. 



Karkarra, H. ; Ghanto, Nepal : Karkuchi, Mahr. ; Kallam, Deccaii ; 

 Garara, Uriya ; Wada-Koruka, Tel. ; Karkoncha, Can. 



Coloration. Forehead, sides of crown, and sides of head, with 

 the chin, throat, whole fore neck, and a broad ring round the nape 

 black; feathers on lower eyelid, arid a streak from the back of the 

 eye over the ear-coverts, ending behind in a long plume, white ; 

 crown and the upper parts from a little behind the nape ashy 

 grey ; breast and abdomen the same, slightly darker ; the sinciput 

 streaked with black; winglet, larger primary-coverts, and pri- 

 maries black, secondaries brownish grey tipped with blackish, and 

 tertiaries, for the most part, with black tips ; tail-feathers dark 

 grey above, blackish below. 



Young birds have the head grey, streaked with black, and the 

 lengthened plumes are ill-developed. 



Bill greenish, reddish at the tip; irides red ; legs black. 



Length about 33 ; tail 6-5 ; wing 19 ; tarsus 7; bill from gape 3. 



Distribution. A migratory bird, breeding in Southern and Eastern 



