BALEARIC CRANE. 35 



The specimen in the garden is a young bird, and dances 

 and springs, often with outstretched wings. 



"In June and July it often called out in an upright 

 position, without bending its head or opening its beak, 

 with a full, loud, and ringing voice, 'rag, rag, rag,' at 

 least twenty times together, which note may easily be 

 imitated by a strong tenor voice. I seldom heard it 

 during the autumn months ; — the cry of fear when seized 

 hold of is a loud and unpleasant shriek, 'argargargarg' 

 repeated in rapid succession. The voice of G. virgo is 

 quite different, and is very difficult to represent by 

 words; the loud tone is sharp and joyous, and may be 

 represented somewhere between tirr and te7T. 



"B. pavoni7ia liked to stand on one foot in a basin 

 filled with water, nearly three fourths of a foot deep, 

 and would remain so during the night, which in a 

 March temperature, did not seem natural." 



It feeds on worms, insects, and small fish. I am 

 unacquainted with its breeding habits, but I dare say 

 they differ but little from those of the other members 

 of the family. 



The adult male has the crown of the head, from the 

 front to the occiput, covered with soft black feathers 

 like velvet; the sides of the head are bare of feathers, 

 the white skin shaded above and below with red; the 

 shape of this denuded part being like that of a kidney 

 or ear-lobe; on each side of the throat hangs a kind 

 of wattle, larger in some individuals than others, and 

 of a red colour; on the occiput is a tuft, composed of 

 hair or rather bristles arising close at the base, and 

 spreading out on all sides in a globular form, of about 

 four inches in length. The neck, back, rump, scapularies, 

 crop, abdomen, flanks, upper part of the thighs, and 

 the upper and lower tail coverts, are of a bluish ash; 



