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A. C AFVT plumosum. 
A. Head feathered. 
NUMIDIAN DEMOISELLE. 
( Anthropoides Virgo.) 
An, corpore cceruleo-cinereo, capiie remigibusque primariis apice' 
nigris, pone oculos uirinque crista pennacea recurvatd longar 
alba. 
Demoiselle with the body of a blue-grey; . the head and tip of 
the primary quills black ; behind the eyes on each side a 
recurved, elongated, pennaceous, white crest. 
Ardea Virgo. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 234. 2. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 
6ig . — Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 6y3. 2. 
Grus Numidica. Briss. Orn. 5. 388. 12. 
La Gruede Numidie, ou Demoiselle. Buff. Ois. f. 3\3.pl. 15^-— 
Buff. PI. Enl. 24 1 . 
Demoiselle, or Nuniidian Crane. Alb. Birds. 3. pi. 83. — Edw. 
pi. 134. — Lath. Gen, Syn,5. 35. 
This highly elegant species is as large as the; 
Crane, and measures three feet three inches in 
length : its beak is two inches and a half long, 
with the base greenish, the middle yellowish, and 
the tip red : the irides are crimson : the crown of 
the head is cinereous ; the rest of the head, the 
nape, and under parts of the neck to the breast, are 
black : behind each eye springs an elegant tuft of 
long white feathers, which hang downwards : the 
feathers of the breast are long and dependent : the 
under parts of the body, from the breast, the back, 
