Cuass II. 
GENUS IL. 
CRANE HERON. 
HERON. 
Brix long, strong, and pointed. 
Nostrits linear. 
TonGveE pointed. © 
Tors connected as far as the first joint by a 
strong membrane. 
Ardea. Grus. A. occipite nudo 
papilloso, pileo remigibus- 
que nigris, corpore cinereo, 
tectricibus intimis laceris. 
Lath. Ind. orn. 674. id. Syn. 
v. 40. id. Sup. ii. 298. 
Le Grue. Belon av. 187. 
Grus. Gesner av. 528. 
A Crane. Turner. . 
Gru, Grua. Aldr. av. iil. 132. 
Wil. orn. 274. 
Rai Syn. av. 95. 
La Grue. Brisson av. v. 374. 
Tab. 33. Hist. @ois. vii. 
287. Pi. Enl. 769. 
Kranich. Aram. 345. 
Kranich. Frisch, ii. 194. 
Ardea Grus. Gm. Lin. 620. . 
Trana. Faun. Suec. sp. 161. 
Danis Trane. Brunnich. — 
Br. Zool. 118. Arct. Zool. ii. 
154. 
Tus species was placed, in the folio edition 
of the Zoology, among the British birds, on the 
authority of Mr. Ray ; who informs us, that in 
his time, they were found during the winter in 
large flocks in Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire: | 
1. CRANE. 
but on the strictest enquiry we learn, that at 
present the inhabitants of those counties are 
scarcely acquainted with them; we therefore 
