SIBERIAN CRANE. 
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in the spring, and retires to the south in the 
autumn. In the summer it is abundant in Hud- 
son’s Bay, where it arrives in May, and retires in 
September. It affects sequestered places in marshy 
situations on the borders of lakes. The nest is 
composed of grass and feathers : the eggs are 
similar to those of a Swan, and are hatched in 
about three weeks * the young are yellow at first, 
and gradually attain their proper colour ; their 
food consists principally of insects, worms, toads, 
&c., but they will occasionally eat young corn. 
B. m denticulaturn ; occiput nudum, papillosum ; or- 
bits plumosce. 
B. Beak slightly toothed 5 occiput naked and warted j the orbits 
feathered. 
SIBERIAN CRANE. 
(Grus gigantea.) 
Gr. nivea, remigihus decern primoribus nigris, rostra pedibusque 
rubris. 
Snowy Crane, with the ten first quills black ; the beak and feet 
red. 
Ardea gigantea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 622. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 
674. 3. 
Grus leucogeranos. Pall. Trav. 2. 714. 30. pi. I. 
Siberian Crane. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 455. c. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 
5. 37.3. 
V. XI. P. II. 
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