GRUS 719 



$ ad. General colour pale ashy grey, nearly white ; crown naked, 

 rough, red in colour, sparsely covered with a few small hairs ; head and 

 upper neck smoky black ; a small white spot behind each eye ; primaries 

 and secondaries, spurious wing, and tail black ; inner secondaries falcated, 

 elongated, slightly decomposed and erectable ; bill greenish horn ; legs 

 black ; iris yellow. Culmen 4*8, wing 25*3, tail 9'3, tarsus 10'2 inch. 



Hob. Koko-nor and Tibet. 



I find nothing on record respecting the habits or nidification 

 of this species, except that its cry is said to resemble that of 

 A. leucogeranus, and that it is supposed to breed in the Koko- 

 nor district. 



1003. MANCHURIAN CRANE. 

 GRUS JAPONENSIS. 



Grus japonensis (P. L. S. Miiller), Natursystem, Suppl. p. 110 (1776) ; 

 Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 351 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiii. 

 p. 258 ; Blaauw, Monogr. Cranes, p. 11, pi. 3 and pi. xvii. fig. 2 

 (egg) ; G. viridirostris, Vieill. Encycl. Me"th. iii. p. 1141 (1823) ; 

 Tegetm. and Blyth, Nat. Hist. Cranes, p. 53 ; David and Oust. Ois. 

 Chine, p. 435 ; Tacz. F. O. Sib. 0. p. 806 ; G. montignesia, Bp. 

 Compt. Eend. xxxvii. p. 661 (1854) ; Sclater, in Wolfs Zool. 

 Sketches, ii. pi. 46. 



TancJio, Jap. 



$ ad. (Japan). General colour pure white ; crown bare, papillose 

 crimson ; cheeks, throat, and hind neck slate-grey ; region over and below 

 the eye and a band from the occiput down the hind neck pure white ; 

 secondaries black ; legs greyish black ; bill greenish horn ; iris dark 

 brown. Culmen 6*3, wing 25'0, tail 9'0, tarsus 10'2 inch. 



Hob. South-eastern Siberia, Manchuria, Japan, Corea,*and 

 Northern China, but of rare occurrence south of the Great 

 Wall. 



Is said to frequent the large open plains, and is a migrant in 

 S.E. Siberia, arriving in the Ussuri country early in April and 

 leaving in November. It breeds in the large marshy plains 

 which are interspersed with small lakes, making a simple nest 

 on the ground, and deposits 2 eggs, which are isabelline yellow 

 in colour, marked with pale reddish grey shell blotches and 

 light olivaceous brown surface markings, and measure about 

 4-05 by 2-53. 



