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the throat black, and the rump ornamented with 

 long, stiff, and curled feathers, in part. This bird 

 has been celebrated in all ages, by its autumnal 

 migrations from north to south, and its return in 

 spring, in numerous and well organized flocks. They 

 eat grains in cultivated lands, but they prefer the 

 insects and worms, which a marshy country affords. 

 The ancients have said a great deal on these birds, 

 on account of their migrations, which appear to be 

 principally through Greece and Asia Minor. See 

 windpipe, Bloch. Bech. Berl. Nat. iv. t. 16. Phil. 

 Trans. 1. vi. t. 11. f. 4. Lin. Trans, iv. t. 12. f. 4. 



To this genus should be added : 



Brown Crane, Lath. Ard. Canadensis, Edw. 133. 

 The Indian Crane, Edw, 45, Eni. 865. A. Anti- 

 gone, Vieill. 256. 



Forehead and nape, naked, pale ; body, ashy ; wing- 

 feadiers, testaceous, with white shafts. The Grus 

 PoliocephcBa of Wagler. 



Hooping Crane, Lath. Ard. Americana, Lin. PL 

 Enl. t. 889. Ard. Leucoceranus, Pallas. It. 2, n. 

 30, t. 1, which appears to us to differ nothing from 

 the Ard. Americana. 



White ; primaries, black ; nape-spot, blackish ; upper 

 quills, like those of an ostrich, broad and soft. When 

 young, back and scapular, reddish-brown. The Grus 

 Struthio, Wagler, see Edw. t. 132, and Wilson, A. 

 O. viii. t. 64, f. 3. Wagler regards Pallas's as a dis- 

 tinct species, the same as the Siberian Crane, Lath. 

 Ardea Gigantea, of Gmelin's Travels. 



