HERON, 33 



5.— COMMON CRANE. 



Ardea eras; Ind. Orn. ii. 674. Lin. i. 234. Faun. Suec. No. 161. Gm. Lin. i. 620. 



Scojd. i. No. 122. £r?«n. p. 47. Midler, p. 22. Kramer, p. 345. Frisch, I. 194. 



Erw. v. 374. t. 33. Jd. 8vo. ii. 307. jRai'i, 95. A. 1. ^7/. 200. t. 48. Gerin.W. 



t.415. AVein, 121. I. /</. 0«. 23. p. 17. f. 1. Faun. Arag. 76. Borowsk. iii. 82. 



i-auw. He/ue*. Be.«cA. Berl. Nat.'w. 586. t. 16. Bloch. 

 Grus cinerea, Tern. Man. 346. /d. F,d. ii. p. 558. 

 LaGrue, Buf. vii. 287. pi. 14. P/. en/, p. 769. Naturf. xiii. s. 202. Schmid, Vog, 



p. 112. t. 98. 

 Common Crane, Gen. SyW. v. p. 40. Id. Sup. ii. 298. Br. Zool. ii. App. 629. pi. 6. 



Id. Ed. 1812. ii. p. 17. pi. 2. Arct. Zool. ii. 453. A. Will. Engl. p. 274. pi. 48. 



Kolb. Cap. ii. 141. Archceol. i. p. 171, ,4/fo'n, ii. pi. 65. Pan. ,4/e/>, 69. PA?7. 



Trans, xxvii. 464? iirf.'lvi! 20S. 215. pi. 11. f. 4. the windpipe. Lin. Trans, iv. 



107. pi. xii. f.4. windpipe. Bewick, ii. pi. p. 29. Lewin, iv. pi. 143. Walcot, ii. 



pi. 124. Orn. jDici. ^ Supp, IVood's Zoogr.'u p. 512. 



THIS is a large bird, at least five feet in length, and weighs ten 

 pounds. Bill four inches and a quarter long, and greenish black ; 

 the forehead, to the middle of the crown, covered with black down 

 or hairs; the hind part bare and red, with a few scattered hairs; on 

 the nape, below this, a bare space of two inches, and ash-coloured; 

 sides of the head, behind the eyes, and the neck behind, white ; 

 between the bill and eyes, beneath them, and fore part of the neck, 

 blackish ash-colour; lower part of the neck and the rest of the body- 

 fine ash-colour, deepest on the tail coverts ; the greater wing coverts 

 blackish ; and those farthest from the body, with the bastard wing 

 and quills, black; from the pinion of each wing springs an elegant 

 tuft of loose feathers, curled at the ends, which may be erected at 

 will, but in a quiescent state hang over, and cover the tail ; legs 

 black. Male and female much alike. 



This species seems far spread, being met with in great flocks 

 throughout Northern Europe and Asia, in Sweden, Russia in general, 

 Siberia, as far as the River Anadyr, migrating even to the Arctic 



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