330 CLASS AVES. 



ash-coloured, with a black neck, and two white 

 ornamental tufts formed by the elongation of the 

 slender feathers, which cover the ear. Such as are 

 in captivity are remarkable for their affected and 

 ridiculous gestures and movements. 

 , The anatomists of the academy had applied to 

 this bird, on account of its gestures, the name of 

 ScopSy OtuSy and udsia^ by which the ancients meant 

 air-owls. Buffon, who has ably reflited this error in 

 his article on the owls, adopts it from forgetfulness 

 in that of the demoiselle. 



See Windpipe Dodart. Mem. iij. t. 35, Pitf. Mem. 

 t. at p. 204. Phil. Trans. Ivi. 1. 11. Lin. Trans, 

 iv. t. 10, f. 4. 



Add— 



Stanley Crane. Anthropodes Stanleyanus, Vigors, 

 Zool. Jour. ij. t. 8. 



Crown of soft white feathers ; neck, wings, and body, 

 bluish-ash ; tips of quills and shaft of tail, black- 

 brown ; ears — streak, brown. Length, forty inches. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 

 Is probably the Grus Paradisea of Licht. 



The Common Cranes have the bill as long, and 

 longer than the head. 



The Common Crane. Lath. Ardea Grus, and Grus 

 Cinerea. Bechst. Enl. 7^9. Frisch. 194. Naum. 

 1st Edit. 2. f 2. 



Four feet and more, in height ; ash coloured, with 



