26 SIBERIAN CRANE. 



Mclntyre, near Mooltum; who stated that it was by no means un- 

 common in upper Scinde." 



From the difficulty of procuring a specimen, I think I cannot give 

 a better reason for my inability to give a figure of this bird, and 

 for availing myself of Mr. Gould's friendly permission to copy the 

 beautiful drawing in his work on the "Birds of Europe." 



The male has all its plumage a pure snow white, with the face 

 naked, rugose, red, and garnished with a few hairs; the ten first 

 primaries of a deep black, not passed by the secondaries, which end 

 in long and disunited webs, like those of the Common Crane; beak 

 red; feet and legs lake red; iris white. 



The female resembles the male, but is larger. 



Degland states that the young of the year have the head covered 

 with yellow-ochre-coloured down; face, beak, and legs olive brown; 

 the rest like the adult, but less pure in colour. 



It has been figured by Temminck and Laugier, (pi. col. 467,) and 

 by Gould, Birds of Europe, pi. 271. 



