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INDIAN CR. 



Genus LXV. HERON. 



N" 80. African H. N" 82. Yellow-necked H. 



81. Lohaujung H. 



Indian Crane, Gen, Sjn. v. p. 38. N» 4. 



HIS bird is very common in great flocks north of Cal' 



cutta. 



GIGANTIC CR. 



Pl.CXV. 

 dcscription. 



Gigantic Crane, Gen. Syn. v. p. 45. N" 8. 



T HAVE three or four times met with this bird in paintings 

 done in the country which it inhabits ; but the moft faithful 

 reprefentation will be found in the drawings of Lady Impey, under 

 whofe infpeftion it was done from the life in India. The fize is 

 allowed to be from five to feven feet in length, and, when Hand- 

 ing ereft, it is five feet high. The bill of a vafl fize, fharp- 

 pointed, compreffed on the fides, of a yellowifh white colour, and 

 opens very far back into the head ; the noftrils, a flit placed high 

 up near the bafe : the whole head and neck are naked i the front 

 is yellow j the fore part of the neck the fame, but more duUj the 

 hind part of the head and neck red, with here and there a warty 

 excrefcence, mixed with a few ftraggling hairs curled at the ends : 

 the craw hangs down on the fore part of the neck, like a pouch, 

 and twines round the back part ; the lower part of it furniflied 

 with hairs, like the reft of the neck, but at the bottom are in 

 greater number, and of a triangular form : the upper part of the 

 back and ftioulders are furrounded with white downy feathers ; the 



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