720 GRUS 



1004 HOODED CRANE. 

 GRUS MONACHUS. 



Grus monachus, Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. 555 (1835) ; id.'and Schleg. Faun. 

 Jap. p. 119, pi. 75 ; David and Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 434 ; Tegetm. 

 and Blyth, Nat. Hist. Cranes, p. 71 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiii. 

 p. 257 ; Blaauw, Monogr. Cranes, p. 15, pi. iv. 



Nabe-dzuru, Jap. 



Ad. (Japan). Upper and under parts slaty grey, the former with 

 brownish, and the latter with greyish margins to the feathers ; primaries, 

 primary coverts, secondaries, tail, and tail -coverts slaty black ; head and 

 most of the neck pure white ; forehead covered with black hair-like 

 bristles ; fore crown bare, papillose, red ; bill and upper ^eyelids yellowish 

 horn; legs blackish horn; iris orange-brown. Culmen 4'5, wing 2TO, 

 tail 7'0, tarsus 8 - 5 inch. 



Hob. Eastern Siberia, Mongolia, Manchuria, wintering in 

 China, Corea, and occasionally in Japan. 



In general habits it does not differ from its allies. It breeds 

 probably north of Dauria, but its nest and eggs are as yet 

 unknown. 



1005. CANADIAN CRANE. 

 GRITS CANADENSIS. 



Grus canadensis (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 234 (1766) ; Ridgway, p. 135 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiii. p. 256 ; Blaauw, Monogr. Cranes, 

 p. 20, pi. vi. ; G. fraterculus, Cass. in Baird Cass. and Lawr. B. N. 

 Am. p. 656 (1858) ; Tegetm. and Blyth, Nat. Hist. Cranes, p. 78 ; 

 Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 800 ; G. mexicana (P. L. S. Miiller), Natur- 

 syst. Suppl. p. 110 (1776) ; Ridgway, p. 135 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. xxiii. p. 254. 



ad. (N. America). Crown and lores bare, reddish, more or less 

 covered with blackish hairs ; general colour slate-grey or plumbeous grey, 

 sometimes tinged with rusty brownish ; primaries darker ; cheeks and 

 throat whitish ; bill blackish, paler at tip ; legs and feet blackish ; iris 

 crimson. Culmen 4'4, wing 18'5, tail 7'7, tarsus 8'0. Sexes alike. 



Hob. North America, from Alaska and Hudson's Bay, south 

 to Mexico, Florida, and Georgia in winter. 



Obtained twice in North-eastern Siberia on the promontory 

 of Chukotskoi Noss, one of the specimens being in the Warsaw 

 Museum. Grus auslralasiana, Gould, which inhabits Eastern 

 Australia has also, according to Taczanowski (F. O. Sib. 0. 801), 

 been once obtained near Yakutsk. 



