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INDIAN CRANE. 
(Grus Antigone.) 
Gr. corpore cinereoy remigibus primoribus nigris, vertice macu- 
laque pone oculos albis, rostro Jtavo-virescente , pedibus rubris. 
Crane with a grey body ; the primary quills black ; the crown 
and spot behind the eyes white j the beak yellowish green j 
the feet red. 
Grus orientalis Indica, Briss. Orn. 5. 378. 7- 
Ardea Antigone. Linn. Syst.Nat. 1. 235. 6. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 
1. 622. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 674. 4. 
Grue ^ coUier. Buff. Ois. 7. 307- variety. — Buff. Pi. Enl. 865. 
var. 
Indian Crane. Edvo. pi. 45. — Lath. Gen. Syn.5. 38. 5. — Lath. 
Syn. Sup. 232. 
Length five feet: beak greenish yellow, with 
the tip dusky : irides bright reddish hazel : the 
crown of the head naked, and w hite, with a small 
spot on each side, near the ears, similar ; the rest 
of the head, and part of the neck, covered with a 
naked red skin : the general colour of the plumage 
is of a fine cinereous ; the neck lightest : the quills 
are black, the secondaries cinereous ; those nearest 
the body are pointed at the ends, and longer than 
the quills, over wdiich they hang : the tail is ash- 
coloured : the legs and naked space above the 
knee are red : the claws white. 
Two varieties are described by Latham, but 
whether they are referrible to this species is some- 
what doubtful : one differs in being nine inches 
