CROWNED DEMOISELLE. 
537 
Bluish Demoiselle, with the head black, adorned with an erect, 
hairy, yellowish crest ; the wings white ; the tail black, {Fe- 
male black where the male is bluish 3 the wattle very small.) 
Ardea Pavonina. Linn. S^st. Nat. 1 . 233 . \.—Gmel. Syst. Nat. 
1 . Q\Q. — Lalh.Ind. Orn. 2. 6‘]2. I. 
Grus balearica. Rail. Syn. p. Q5. 3 . — Briss. Orn. 5 . 511 . 1. pi. 
41 . female. 
Grus capensis. Petiv. Gaz.pl. 76.,/. Q. 
L’Oiseau royal. £uf. Ois. 7. ZlJ.pl. 16. — Buff. PI. Enl. 205 . 
male. 
Balearic Crane. Will. Ang. p. 2y5.pl. 48 . 
Crowned African Crane. Edtjo. pi. 192. 
Crowned Heron. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 34. 1. — Gent. 3Iag.xx. pi. 
in p. 201. 
This most beautiful bird is noticed by Latham 
as follows : “ This is as large as the common 
Heron : the length two feet nine inches : the beak 
is two inches and a half long, straight, and of a 
brownish colour : irides grey : the crown of the 
head covered with soft black feathers, like velvet ; 
on the hind part is a tuft composed of hair, or 
rather bristles, arising near each other at the base, 
and spreading out on all sides in a globular form ; 
this is four inches in length, and of a reddish brown 
colour: the sides of the head are bare of feathers, 
being covered only by a fleshy membrane, of a 
reddish colour at the lower part, and in shape not 
unlike a kidney : on each side of the throat hangs 
a kind of wattle : the general colour of the bird 
bluish ash : the feathers on the fore-part of the 
neck are very long, and hang over the breast : 
wing-coverts white ; the greater ones incline to 
rufous, and those farthest from the body to black : 
