THE SARUS. 
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Grus antigone, Linnd. 
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Vernacular Names.—[Sarus, assim; Sirhans, (Hindee); Gyo-gya, Arakan ; 
Gyo-gya, Jo-ja, Peguz.] 
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t=) HE. Sarus is found, zz suitable localities, throughout the 
Mt Central Provinces (including Bustar and the other 
Feudatory States), the Madras Presidency, north of 
the Gddavari, (and perhaps between the Kistna and 
Géddavari), Chota Nagpur, Lower Bengal, the North- 
Western Provinces and Oudh, Rajputana (except 
the more western portions), Cutch, Kathidwar, the 
eastern portions of Sind and the Punjab, and in the 
Bombay Presidency north of the Nerbudda, and along the 
Coast, at any rate, as far south as the Tapti, and the southern 
talukas of the Surat District. But Mr. Mulock, the Collector 
of Tanna, a good sportsman who knows the district thoroughly, 
says that he has never once met with the Sarus in that district, 
although as it is found (but even there as a rare visitor) in the 
adjoining Surat Talukas, it may, occasionally, occur in the Tanna 
Collectorate also. In Khandesh Major Probyn, who has been 
stationed in that district for years, says that he has only thrice 
seen it, so that there also it can only be a very rare straggler. 
As regards the Deccan, Mr. J. Davidson, C.S., tells me that he 
has “ never seen or heard of its being found there.” 
Eastwards it extends far up into the valley of Assam, being 
common in Darrang, and occurring, though more sparingly, in 
Lakhimpur. 
Again it occurs in Arakan, in Pegu, and in those few portions 
of Tenasserim where there are wide plains, as in the valleys of 
the Attaran and the Sitang. 
Mr. Oates remarks that it is “common and a constant resident 
throughout the flat, swampy plains of Lower Pegu ; it breeds 
during July, August and September. The bird is becoming 
less common every year, and will probably be entirely driven 
away in a few years.”* 
* Mr. Davis also writes :— 
**The Sarus is common on the extensive swampy plains, between the mouths 
of the Irrawaddy and Salween Rivers, but they are most numerous on the Thatone 
plain opposite the village of Theinzeik,” 
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