192 GKUID^E 



AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 



TOTAL LENGTH 45 in. Female smaller. 



WING 21 



BEAK 4*25 in 



TABSO-METATAKSUS ... 9*6 ,, 



EGG 3'8 X 2*6 in. 



Note. A male example of the Demoiselle Crane, Grus 

 virgo, is said to have been shot at Deerness, East Mainland, 

 Orkney, on May 14th 1863, a companion bird being pur- 

 sued, but not obtained (Zool., p. 8692). This inhabitant 

 of Africa, Asia, and the south of Europe, has wandered as 

 far north as Sweden and Heligoland ; it is also frequently 

 kept in confinement. An African Crowned Crane, Balea- 

 rica pavonina, was mobbed to death by the populace on 

 the Sabbath-day, September 17th 1871, near Dairy in 

 Ayrshire " (Saunders). 



