202 OTIDID.E. 



Grus grus. CRANE. 



-Ardea gTUS Liniums, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 141 : Sweden. 



Cms communis Sechst. ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 152 ; 



Saunters, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 521. 

 Grus grus (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. 1894, p. 250. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A breeding-bird in 

 East Anglia up to the year 1590, and a regular winter 

 visitor till a later period, when its visits gradually became 

 less frequent. As a Bird of Passage it has occurred of recent 

 years in most counties of England, but rarely in Wales, 

 Scotland, the Orkney and Shetland Islands, and the Outer 

 Hebrides. In Ireland it has very rarely been met with, 

 about ten having been obtained during the last century. 



General Distribution. The Crane breeds in Europe from 

 Scandinavia eastwards probably to western Siberia, but its 

 eastern limits are unknown, and southwards to Spain, Italy, 

 the Balkan Peninsula, and Turkestan. In winter it visits 

 Abyssinia and north Africa from Tunisia to Morocco. It 

 is accidental in the Faeroe Islands and north Norway. In 

 eastern Siberia it is replaced by a paler form, G. g. lilfordi, 

 which winters in south China and north-west India. 



Order CHARADRIIFORMES. 



Suborder TIDES. 



Family OTIDID.E. 



Genus OTIS Linntms, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 154. 

 Type : 0. tarda Linn. 



Otis = wr/s, a kind of Bustard with long ear-feathers, known to the 

 Greeks ; from ow, gcnit. wros, an ear. 



