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GRALLATORES. 



Family GRTJIDM. (Bonaparte.) 



Genus Grus. ( Linnceus.) 



BALEARIC CRANE. 



Grus pavonina. 



Grus pavouina, Beisson ; 1760. 



Ardea " Linnaeus; 1766, 



Anthropides pavonina, ViElLLOT; 1816. 



Balearica pavonina, ■ ViGOBS. 

 Oiseaw Roi/al and Balearique 



couronnee, Of THE Feench. 



Specific Characters. — Sides of the head covered with a naked 

 skin in the form of ear-lobes; a membrane (not much extended) 

 under the neck. Length from end of beak to tip of tail two feet 

 nine inches, to end of toes three feet eight inches. 



It is with, much hesitation that I have admitted this 

 bird into the European list, and I only do so as a 

 doubtful species. It is true we have many accounts of 

 its having been taken at Malta and the Balearic Islands, 

 (Majorca and Minorca,) from whence indeed the generic 

 name of Balearica was given to it by Brisson, who stated 

 that in his dav (1760) it was common in those islands. 



