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A. Rostrum inlegcrrimim ; ckvvt: nudum ; oUBixiE plimosiE. 
A. Beak entire j head naked ; orbits feathered. 
COMMON CRANE. 
(Grus cinerca.) 
Gr. corpore cinereOi gida collo anlice occipite(pie nigricante, pileo 
remigibusque nigris, tectricibus intimis laceris. 
Crane with a cinereous body ; the throat, fore-part of the neck, 
and occiput, dusky 3 the pileus and quills black 5 the coverts 
with divided webs. 
Ardea Grus. Linn, Sys't. Nat. 1. 234. A.— Linn. Faun. Suec. 
161. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 620. 4. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 674. 5. 
Grus. Briss. Orn. 5. 374. 6. jd. 33. — Raii. Syn. Q5. a. 1. 
La Grue. Buff. Ois. 7. 287- pi’ 14. — Buff, PI. Enl. 769. 
Grue cendree. Temm. Man. d'Orni. 356. 
Common Crane. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. App.62g. pi. 6. — Penn. 
Arct, Zool. 2. 453. — IVill.Ang. 27A. pi. 4S. — Alb. Brit. Birds, 
2. 65. — Phil. Trans. Ivi. 208. 4. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 
5.50.5. — Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 2Q8. 2. — Letvin. Brit. Birds. 4. 
pi. 143. — Wale. Syn. 2,. pi. 124. — Betv. Brit. Birds. 2. 2Q. — 
Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. — Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. — Bing. Anim. 
Biog. 2. 285. ^ 
The Common Crane is a large bird, frequently 
measuring upwards of five feet in length : it has 
the whole of the upper parts of the body of a grey; 
brown : the throat, the fore-part of the neck, and 
the occiput, are of a deep greyish black ; forehead 
and space between the beak and eye furnished 
with black hairs : the top of the head naked and 
