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Ordee Gruipormes. 

 Family GruidcB. True Cranes. 

 Palate schizognathous. Tall birds with long necks and legs. 

 Tail quills 12. 



Genus Antigone. 

 Skin bare round a clear patch of ear-coverts. 



From life. D. Le Souef. 



Australian Bustard: Eupodotis australis. 



The Australian Crane or Native Companion. 



Antigone australiasiana. 



Australia. 



Above grey, the margins of the feathers being paler; primaries 

 black; tail feathers slaty grey, blackish towards the tips; crown bare 

 and olive-green, the hinder crown with coarse papillae; chin and upper 

 throat bare; raised fleshy papill89 at back of head red; the pendulous 

 gular pouch olive-green. Total length about 42 inches, oulmen 6, wing 

 20.5, tail 7.5, tarsus 10.2. 



