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GRALLATORES. 



Family GRUIDJE. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Grus. ( Linnceus.) 



Generic Characters. — Beak as long or longer than, the head, 

 strong, straight, compressed, elongated as a cone at the point; 

 the base of the mandible deeply channeled; nostrils in the 

 middle of the beak, or basal, pierced from side to side ia 

 the furrow, and closed at the back by a membrane; base of 

 the beak and space round the eyes naked, or covered with 

 small papillae or feathers. The thigh, above the knee, naked 

 for some distance; three toes in front, the middle one united 

 to the external one by a rudimentary membrane; inner toe 

 free; posterior toe articulated higher upon the tarsus. "Wings 

 middle sized; the first primary shorter than the second, and 

 this nearly as long as the third, which is the longest; 

 secondaries nearest the body arched, or in some species very 

 long, and tufted. Tail short. 



SIBERIAN CRANE. 



Grus Icucogerana. 



Grus leucogerana, Pallas; 1776. 



" gigantea, Vieillot; Diet., 1817. 



" leucogeranos, Lesson. Bonaparte. 



Temminck; 1843. 

 Ardea gigantea, Gmelin; 1788. 



" antigone, LiKN^us; 1766. 



