GRUS ANTIGONE. 



(SARUS CRANE.) 



The Greater Indian Crane, Edw. Nat. Hist. Birds, i. p. 45, pi. 45 (1743). 



La Grue des Indes Orientates, Brisson, Orn. v. p. 378 (1760). 



Ardea antigone, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 235 (1766). 



La Grue a collier, Buff. Nat. Hist. Ois. vii. p. 307 (1780). 



Grus collaris, Bodd. Tabl. des PL Enl. p. 52 (1783). 



Grus torquata, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xiii. p. 560 (1817). 



Grus antigone (Linn.), id. ut supra (1817). 



Grus orientalis, Frankl. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 123. 



Antigone antigone (Linn.), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. ii. p. 100 (1857). 



Antigone collaris (Bodd.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiii. p. 262 (1894). 



Figures notabiles. 

 Edw Nat Hist. B. i. pi. xlv.; D'Aubenton, PL Enl. 865; Eeichenb. Handb. Fulic. 

 tab. exxvii. fig. 428, tab. exxix. figs. 1235, 1240 ; Hume & Marshall, Game B. of India, 

 iii. pi. i. 



Ad. capite et collo supero Budis, gula cum nucha postica et lateribus setis uigris tectis : regione parotic* 

 plumis cinereis tectus : collo infra portionem nudam albo cincto : corpore supra cum collo infenore 

 cinereo-ardesiacis: tectricibus alarum cinereo-albis, secundariis intimis elongatis fere albis versus 

 apicem- remigibus nigro-fuscis : cauda cinerea : corpore subtus cinereo-ardesiaco, subcaudahbus 

 pallidioribus: rostro pallide viridi-corneo, apice saturatiore : pileoalbo: capite rebquo et collo rubns, 

 collo in parte inferiore Buda aurantiaco : iride aurantiaca : pedibus rubro-cameis. 



Adult (Sambhur, January 10th) . Head and upper neck bare, the throat, sides, and hind Beck covered with 

 numerous black bristly hairs, the ears covered with a patch of ashy-grey feathers; the feathers on the 

 Beck below the bare portion white for about two inches, and then merging into ashy grey ; upper parts 

 generally ashy grey, becoming whiter on the wiBg-coverts aBd ob the terminal portion of the inner 

 secoBdaries, which are nearly white at the tips, and are considerably elongated, reaching beyond the 

 tail; quills blackish brown; tail ashy grey; nnderparts generally ashy grey, paler on the under tad- 

 coverts : bill pale greenish horny with dark tip ; skin on crown white ; papillose skin of head and neck 

 orange-red, shaded darker here and there, aBd furnished with a scaBty black wattle; at the bottom of 

 the neck, bordering the plumage, is a collar-like space of bright orange skin ; iris orange ; leg"eddrsh 

 or flesh-colour, darker on the joints. Total leBgth about 42 hiches, cnlmeB 7% wmg 26"5, tail 9-6, 

 tarsus 11 '4. 



The Sams Crane is only a rare straggler to the Western Paleearctic area, and has not been met 

 with west of Eussia. Professor Menzbier informs me that it was first recorded by Eversmann as 

 occasionally visiting the steppes in the Government of Astrachan, and is, according to Karelin, a 



