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6. The Canadian Crane {Grits canadensis).


A sombre edition of the Common Crane, being of a

•general grey colour, with no well denned black and white on the

face and neck as in the European bird.


It is also called the Sandhill Crane.


Hab. : North America, south to Mexico. They live well

in captivity. # # #


7. The Sarus Crane (Grus collaris).


A very tall and stately bird of a fine French grey colour,

the elongated plumes of the wings that hang over the tail, being

whitish.


Skin on forehead and crown, pale ashen green ; rest of

head featherless and of a scarlet red with black hairs.


The upper part of the neck is white, forming a collar.

The French call it " Grue a collier."


Hab. : Northern India.


Not infrequently imported, but has probably never bred in

Europe. * A . ^


8. The Eastern Sarus Crane {Grus antigone).


Exactly the same style of bird as the Indian Sarus, but of

a general grey colour throughout; the red skin of the head

extends farther down the neck, and the skin on the crown is

■more yellowish. Perhaps even taller than the G. collaris.


Hab. : Burmah, Siam and Malay Peninsula.


Rarely imported.


Imagine a flock of 600 of these magnificent birds circling

round in mid-air, which sight Dr. John Anderson once witnessed

iu Upper Burmah.


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9. The Australian Crane {Grus australasiana) .


The Native-Companion of the Colonists.


i[See Vol. VIII., Avicultural Mag., Nov. 1901, for the account of the nesting

of a pair of these birds iu my possession. — H.D.A.]

Not unlike the Sarus Crane, but less tall. General colour,


pale blue-grey, feathers of back and wings having lighter margins.


Primaries, black. Crown of head and bill, olive-green ; eye, fine


orange-yellow ; round the ears and the back of the head, coral-



