16 Monograph of the Cranes. 



In this communication Mr. Bennett adopted the generic name Anthropoides, Vieill., 

 Mr. Gray advocating the retention of the name Balearica ; but in the " Gardens and 

 Menagerie of the Zoological Society," 1835, Mr. Bennett described one species only, 

 which he called Balearica pcwonica (Vig.) ; and for this he gave the following figure 

 of the Southern species ! 



Neither does the name appear to have been employed by the elder Lichtenstein ; for 

 the " Oat. Dnpt. Berl. Mus. 1793," quoted by Layard in his " Birds of South Africa," 

 appears to be a combination of the Latinized title of " Verzeichniss der Doubletten des 

 zoologischen Museums der konigl. Universitat zu Berlin, von Dr. H. Lichstenstein," 

 Berlin, 1823, in which the species is not named, with the date of the following — 

 " Catalogus rerum naturalium rarissimarum, Hamburgi, d.zxi. October, 1793, auctionis 

 lege distrahendarum," with preface by M. Ant. Aug. Hen. Lichtenstein, Bector der 

 Johannis-Sohule, Berlin. A copy of the latter catalogue exists in the Banksian Library; 

 and in it the Western Crowned Crane is included under the generic name of Ardea, and 

 the Kaffir Orane is described as follows : — 



"284 A. ! ! Ardea chrysopelargus, too&m. Ardea oeulorum area nuda; corpore swgra it&m 

 collo et peetore exfusco wneo; suhtus alio. Bostmm fere 10 polUces longum rubrum 

 hasi eaoaTbidv/m. Nares Uneares ultra 4 poUiees longas, mandibulem swperiorem in 

 medio quasi sulco pervio di/rimunt. Oenoe et colVum purpurea nitore fulgent, reliqwum 

 corpus, quatenus ex ceneo fusfmm est vvridi splendore renidet. Bemiges nigrcB ; 

 rectrices swgra amit ceneoe, imfra ut venter et crissum albent. Pedes 29 pollices longi, 

 palKde rubri. Digiti antid basi paknati, posticus brevis terrain iamen attigens. 

 Longitudo universa 4 pedum 6-| polKcum. Eabitat in terra Oafrorum." 



Consequently it appears that, if the rules of the usually accepted code of nomen- 

 clature are to be carried out, the name of this species must be changed from B. regulorum 

 to Balearica chrysopelargus (Lioht.) — the meaningless name regulorum being apparently, 

 as suggested by Mr. Solater, a corruption of the term oeulorum in A, A. H. Lichten- 

 stein's description. (W. B. Tegetmeier in Proc. Zool. Soc, 1880, p. 93.)] 



This is the larger and more handsome of the two species, and it 

 has a most conspicuously-developed throat-wattle in both sexes, whereas in 

 the other the same caruncle exists, but is so small as to pass unnoticed 

 in the living bird. The clothing plumage is also differently coloured. 

 In B. chrysopela/rgua the predominant hue is grey, pale on the neck, and 



