ORDER GRALLJE 329 



(laries, green ; wing-coverts, greenish ; middle of 

 wing, shining blue ; lower part of neck, shining violet. 

 Brazils. Length, 19 inches. 



P. Leucoptera, Id. 84. 



Above and beneath, black ; quills and secondaries, 

 white ; wing-coverts, violet and green, shiny ; back, 

 black; lower part of neck, copper-violet. Bra- 

 zils. 21 inches. 



Some other foreign Cranes^ which have the bill 

 shorter than ours, ought to follow. They form the 

 genus Anthropoides of Vieillot. 



The Crowned Crane, Lath. Edw. t. 192. Ardea 

 Pavonia, L. Enl. 9,^5, and the young, Vieill. 



257. 



Of a slender make, four feet high, ash- coloured, with 

 a black belly, the rump fulvous, and the wings 

 white. Its naked cheeks are coloured with tinted 

 and bright rose colour, and the occiput is crowned 

 with a tuft of slender yellow feathers, which are 

 spread out at pleasure. This tine bird, whose voice 

 resembles the sound of a trumpet, comes to us from 

 the eastern coast of Africa, where it is frequently 

 brought up in confinement and fed on grain. In a 

 wild state, it frequents inundated lands, and feeds on 

 fish. 



Demoiselle Heron, Lath. Ardea Virgo, Enl. 246, 

 similar to the last in form, and nearly so in size ; 



