346 VERTEBRATA. AVES. 



CROWNED CRANE (Grus Pavonina). 



ORDER V. GRALLATORES.* 



The length of the feet (vulgo t the legs,) of several 

 of the birds we have lately noticed, and also that 

 of the neck, have prepared us in some measure 

 for the usual form of the wading birds, in which 

 these characters are shewn in their greatest deve- 

 lopement. They are thus enabled to walk into 

 water of considerable depth without wetting their 

 bodies, and to seize fishes and molluscous animals 

 by means of their bill, which is likewise usually 

 lengthened. Most of them have long wings, and 

 considerable power of flight, during which they 

 stretch out their long feet behind them to serve 



* Grallce, a pair of stilts. 



