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BROWN CRANE. 
makes a loud noise, whicli betrays its course. 
The female lays two greyish green eggs, spotted 
with brown. 
BROWN CRANE. 
■/^(Grus Canadensis.) 
Gr. corpore cinereo, dorso riifescente , alls rii/escentibus fascia 
grised. 
Crane with a grey body ; the back reddish j the quills rufescent, 
with a griseous fascia. 
Grus Freti Hudsonis. Briss. Orn. 5. 385. 11. 
Grus Mexicanus. Briss. Orn. 5. 380. 8. var. 
Grus Indicus. Raii. Syn. Q5. 2. var. 
Ardea Canadensis. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 234. 3. — Gmel. Syst. 
Nat. 1 . 6 ' 20 . — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2 . 675 - 7 * 
LaGruebrune. Buf. Ow. 7*310. • * 
La Gi'ue brune du Mexique. Buff. Ois. 7. 312. 
Brown Crane. Penn. Arct. Zool. 340. — Edxu. pi. 133. — Lath. 
Gen. Syn. 5. 43. 7 * — Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 2QQ. 4. 
Latham thus delineates the characters of this 
species : “ Length three feet three inches : weight 
seven pounds and a half : beak three inches and 
three quarters, and dusky, but the tip of the under 
mandible is pale flesh-colour : the top of the head 
covered with a red skin, thinly beset with hairs : 
cheeks and throat whitish : the hind head and 
neck are grey : the upper part of the back, scapu- 
lars, and wing-coverts, pale rufous, margined with 
