Bs 
Beye, 
THE CROWNED CRANE. 
ANTHROPOIDES PAVONINUS. VIEILI. 
Tue fourth Order of Birds, the Waders, are strikingly 
characterized by the great length of their legs, the lower 
part of which is entirely bare of feathers; a peculiarity 
which is of essential service by enabling them to stand 
for a long time in the water without injury to their 
plumage, watching for the fish and reptiles, of which 
the larger species, and the worms and insects, of which 
the smaller among them, make their usual prey. 
The beautiful birds represented above, which formed 
part of the Linnean genus Ardea, since subdivided into 
numerous distinct groups, offer the following generic 
characters. Their bill is conical, pointed, scarcely longer 
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