GRUS 721 



1006. SARUS CRANE. 

 GRUS COLLARIS. 



Grus collaris, Bodd. Tabl. PL enl. p. 52 (1783) ; (Sharpe), Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. xxiii. p. 262 ; Blaauw, Monogr. Cranes, p. 25, pis. vii. vii.a ; 

 G. antic/one (nee. Linn.), Tegetm. and Blyth, Nat. Hist. Cranes, 

 p. 47 ; Kadde, Orn. Cauc. p. 391 ; Dresser, ix. p. 337, pi. 707. 



$ ad. (India). General colour bluish grey ; head and upper neck bare, 

 papillose, red ; the throat, sides, and hind neck covered with black hairs, a 

 patch of ash-grey feathers covering the ears ; a ring round the neck below 

 the bare portion, and the ends of the elongated inner secondaries, white ; 

 quills blackish brown ; bill pale greenish horn, darker at the tip ; legs 

 reddish flesh; iris orange. Culmen 7*1, wing 26*5, tail 9'6, tarsus 11'4 

 inch. Sexes alike. 



Hob. India, straggling west to Astrachan, Gurieff, and the 

 Caspian. 



In habits this crane does not differ from its congeners, but 

 not being molested is less shy. It frequents similar localities, 

 and makes a large nest of reeds, rushes, &c., and breeds in India 

 from July to November, depositing 2 eggs, which are dull 

 white or creamy buff, more or less marked with purplish grey 

 shell-markings and brown surface spots and blotches, and 

 measure about 3'96 by 2'56. 



1007. DEMOISELLE CRANE. 

 GRUS VIRGO. 



Grus virgo (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 234 (1766; ; Naum. ix. p. 386, Taf. 

 232 ; Dresser, vii. p. 353, pi. 506 ; Tegetmeier and Blyth, Nat. 

 Hist. Cranes, p. 26 ; David and Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 436 ; (Sharpe), 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiii. p. 269 ; (Blanf.), F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iv. 

 p. 190 ; (Tacz.), F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 810 ; Lilford, iv. p. 153, pi. 65 ; 

 (Blaauw), Monogr. Cranes, p. 35, pis. x. x.a, and xviii. fig. 1 (egg). 



Demoiselle de Numidie, French ; Grulla moruna, Span. ; 

 Damigella di Numidia, Ital. ; Jungfernkranich, German ; 

 Maloi-Juravl, Stepnoi-Juravl, Russ. ; Karkarra, Hindu. 



< ad. (S.E. Europe). Crown, nape, a line down the hind neck, upper 

 parts, lower breast, and under parts ashy blue-grey ; forehead, sides of 

 head, throat, and neck deep black ; feathers on the upper breast black, 

 elongated, pointed ; from behind the eye on each side a full white tuft of 

 feathers 4 to 5 inches long ; quills black, the inner short secondaries 

 tinged with grey, the innermost ones blue-grey, long, pointed, tipped 

 with blackish ; legs black ; bill olivaceous brown, reddish towards the 



