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Mr. F. E. Beddard on the 
Balearica is here selected as representing the typical Cranes^ 
for it shews no approximation to Ai^amus in the characters 
to which I am about to call attention. It will be observed 
Fig. 5. 
Foot of Balearica (f nat. size). 
that in Aramus the length of the phalanges of the several 
toes differs from that in Balearica : in the former genus the 
second digit has its first phalanx of equal breadth, or nearly 
so, to the corresponding phalanx of digit iii. ; moreover. 
