^6 SllSKKIAN (KAN'K. 



The male has all its plumage a pure snow white, 

 with the face and "tour des yeux" naked, rugose, red, 

 and garnished with a few hairs; the ten first primaries 

 of a deep black, not passed by the secondaries, which 

 end in long and disunited webs, like those of the 

 Common Crane; beak red; feet and legs lake red; 

 iris white. 



The female resembles the male, but is larger. 



The young of the year have the head covered with 

 yellow-ochi'e-coloured down; face, beak, and legs olive 

 brown; the rest like the adult, but less pure in colour. 

 — Degland. 



It has been figured by Temminck and Laugier, and 

 by Gould, B. of E., pi. 271. 



