284 GRUIDJ3 BALEARIC A 



throat and sides of the face bare ; feathers of the neck throughout 

 elongate and lanceolote ; wing with the secondaries not produced 

 beyond the primaries ; tail and legs as in Bugeranus. 



Three species of this genus are generally recognised, all confined 

 to Africa ; one of these is found within our limits. 



689. Balearica regulorum. Croivned Crane. 



Anthropoides reguloruiu, Benncti, P. Z. 8. 1833, p. 118. 



Balearica regulorum, Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 331; Layard, B. 8. Afr. 

 p. 304 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 255 ; Layard, Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 376 ; Ayves, Ibis, 1871, p. 264, 1873, p. 286, 1874, p. 106, 1877, 

 p. 348 ; Ourney, in Andersson's B. Bamaral. p. 279 (1872) ; Buchley, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 389 ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, pp. 192, 209 ; Holub d 

 Pelzeln, Orn. Siid-Afi: p. 256 (1882) ; 8helley, Ibis, 1882, p. 363 

 [Mashonaland] ; Alexander, Ibis, 1900, p. 450 ; Beichcnow, Vog. Afr. 

 i, p. 265 (1900) ; Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 263 ; Oates, Cat. B. Eggs, 

 ii, pp. 96, 370 (1902). 



Balearica chrysopelargus {nee Licht.) Tegetm., P. Z. 8. 1880, p. 93 ; 

 id. ed. Blyth's Monogr. Cranes, p. 15 (1881) ; Butler, Feilden and 

 Beid, Zool. 1882, p. 342; Beid, Ibis, 1883, p. 225; 8harpe, ed. 

 Bayard's B. 8. Afr. p. 629 (1884) ; id. Cat. B. M. xxiii, p. 274 (1894) ; 

 Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 186 (1896) ; Woodward Bros., N^tal B. p. 174 

 (1899). 



" Kaffir Crane " of some ; " Mahem " of Dutch ; " Ihemu " of Amaxosa 

 (Stanford). 



Description. Adult. — General colour above slaty, paler on the 

 neck, becoming darker on the back towards the tail, which is quite 

 black ; crown of the head with a velvety cushion of black, closely 

 set plumes, behind which on the occiput is a bunch of stiff straw- 

 coloured bristles tipped with black and reaching a length of about 

 four inches ; lores and sides of the face bare, bordered by a line 

 of velvety black plumes, upper throat sparsely covered with a few 

 black downy patches, lower throat bare with an elongate flattened 

 wattle ; feathers of the neck, especially those above the breast 

 elongated and pointed ; greater portion of the wings and their 

 coverts white ; tips of some of the longer secondary coverts de- 

 composed and straw-yellow in colour ; primaries black ; secondaries, 

 except the two first, which are black, maroon red, some of the inner 

 ones slightly decomposed at the tips ; below, like the back, slaty ; 

 under wing-coverts white ; quills black below. 



Iris light ashy ; bill black ; legs and feet black ; bare sides of 



