Class II. CRANE HERON. 



GENUS II. HERON. 



Bill long, strong, and pointed. 

 Nostrils linear. 

 Tongue pointed. 



Toes connected as far as the first joint by a 

 strong membrane. 



Ardea. Grus. A. occipite nudo 

 papillose, pileo remigibus- 

 que nigris, corpore cinereo, 

 tectricibus intimis laceris. 

 Lath. Ind. orn. 674. id. Syn. 

 v. 40. id. Sup. ii. 298. 



Xe Grue. Belon av. 187. 



Grus. Gesner av. 528. 



A Crane. Turner. 



Gru, Grua. Aldr. av. iii. 132. 



Wil. orn. 274. 



Raii Syn. av. 95. 



La Grue. Brisson av. v. 374. 



Tab. 33. Hist, d'ois. vii. 



287- PI- Enl. 769. 

 Kranich. Kram. 345. 

 Kranich. Frisch, ii. 1Q4. 

 Ardea Grus. Gm. Lin. 620. 

 Trana. Faun. Suec. sp. 161. 

 Danis Trane. Brunnich. 

 Br. Zool. 118. Arct. Zool. ii, 



154. 



1. Crane. 



X HIS species was placed, in the folio edition 

 of the Zoology., among the British birds, on the 

 authority of Mr. Ray ; who informs us, that in 

 his time, they were found during the winter in 

 large flocks in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire: 

 but on the strictest enquiry we learn, that at 

 present the inhabitants of those counties are 

 scargely acquainted with themj we therefore 



