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WATTLED CRANE. 
shorter, and in having the head and above half the 
neck almost naked, being covered only with a 
slight reddish white down : round the middle of 
the neck is a red collar : the tail is black. The 
other has the beak and fore-part of the crown yel- 
lowish : the lores and space round the top of the 
neck bare, and crimson : the irides pale orange ; 
the chin and throat beset with black bristles : the 
general colour of the plumage dull pale blue : the 
quills and tail black : tlie legs and bare part of the 
thighs the same, spotted with white. This variety 
inhabits New South Wales. 
This species is found in flocks near Calcutta, 
and in other parts of the East Indies : it is very 
numerous, migrating into that part of the Russian 
territory situated beyond Lake Baikal, frequenting 
the plains and marshy places on the borders of the 
rivers Onon and Argun. 
C. Mandibula inferior ulrinque ■palea elongata depend eni e 
c.kVM'x: plumosum ; orbits nudae. 
C. The under mandible on each side with a depending elongated 
wattle ; head feathered ; orbits naked. 
WATTLED CRANE. 
(Grus carunQulata.) 
Gr. capita collo carunculisque albis, vert ice dor so iectricibusque 
alarum C(rrnleo-cinereis^ abdomine nigro. 
