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GEUS VIKGO. 



(DEMOISELLE CRANE.) 



The Demoiselle of Numiclia, Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, iii. p. 134, pi. 134 (1750). 



Ciconia Grus Numidica, Virgo Numidica vulgo dicta, Briss. Orn. v. p. 388 (1760). 



Ardea virgo, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 234 (1766, ex Edw.). 



La Demoiselle de Numidie, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 313 (1780). 



Grus virgo (L.), Pall. Zoogr. Bosso-As. ii. p. 108 (1811). 



Anthropoides virgo (L.), Vieill. Nouv. Diet. ii. p. 163 (1816). 



Scops virgo (L.), G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of B. p. 86 (1841). 



Demoiselle de Numidie, French ; Grulla moruna, Spanish ; Damigella di Numidia, Italian ; 

 Damigella, Maltese ; Jungfern-Kranich, numidischer Kranich, German ; Maloi-Juravl, 

 Krassawka, Russian. 



Figurce notabiles. 



Edwards, 1. c; D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 241 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 232 ; Sundevall, 

 Svensk. Fogl. pi. 77. fig. 4 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 272. 



Ad. pileo, nucha et linea in collo postico, corpore supra et subtus plumbeo-cinereis vel caeruleo-cinereis : collo 

 cum capitis lateribus saturate nigris, plumis in collo imo antico cum pectore superiore value elongatis et 

 acuminatis : plumarum fasciculo utrinque pone oculos orto, falciformi longissimo laxo albo : remigibus 

 nigris, secundariis cinereo tinctis, intimis valde elongatis, acuminatis, plumbeo-cinereis, versus apicem 

 sordide nigricantibus : rostro olivaceo-fusco, versus apicem rubente : iride rubra : pedibus nigris. . 



Adult Male (Volga). Crown, nape, a line down the hind neck, upper parts generally, lower breast, and 

 underparts, together with under wing-coverts, ashy blue-grey, or dai'k French grey ; sides of the head, 

 throat, and neck deep black ; feathers on the upper breast black, elongated, and pointed, some few on 

 the lower portion, however, being dark grey ; from behind the eye on each side is a full white tuft of 

 feathers from four to five inches in length ; quills black, the inner short secondaries tinged with grey, 

 the innermost secondaries very long, pointed, coloured like the back, except towards the terminal 

 portion, where they are blackish ; tail rather darker than the back ; legs black ; iris deep reddish ; bill 

 obvaceous brown, becoming reddish towards the point. Total length about 31 inches, culmen 2 - 8, 

 wing 19 - 2, tail 7 - 5, tarsus 7'5. 



Adult Female (Volga). Resembles the male, but is a trifle duller in colour, and the white tufts on the sides 

 of the head are smaller. 



Young. In general coloration much the same as the adult ; but the colours are very much duller, the head 

 and neck are almost entirely plumbeous grey, the white tufts on the sides of the head are smaller and 

 greyish, and the innermost secondaries and elongated feathers on the lower neck are much shorter. 



Young in down (Sarepta). Covered with short, close, dull-creamy white down, darker and more of a warm 

 creamy tinge on the upper parts. 



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