Id THE SARUS. 
tail from vent, 1o'O to 12°5 ; tarsus, 13:0 to 14'0; bill from 
gape, 6'°0 to 7:0; mid-toe and claw, 5°87; weight, 16lbs. 
12 ozs. to 2olbs. 
Females.—Length, 53°0 to 55:0; expanse, 90'0 to 94’0 ; wing, 
23°5 to 24'°5 ; tail from vent, 10°0 to 11'0; tarsus, I1'0 to 13:0; 
bill from gape, 6:0 to 6°87 ; mid-toe and claw, 5°5 ; weight, 
15 tbs. I oz. to 17lbs. 6 ozs. 
The bill is pale green, dusky towards the tip ; the legs and 
feet are dull pinkish red ; the irides orange to orange red. 
THE PLATE isan unfinished sketch, and by no means satisfactory. 
I need not tell Indian readers that, excepting the broad white 
neck collar, and the somewhat elongated tertials, (greatly 
exaggerated in the plate,) the rest of the plumage is not greyish 
white, as depicted by Mr. Neale, but a full grey blue. In this and 
other cases dealing with accomplished artists and gentlemen, we 
have trusted to them, (being unable in India to supervise work 
at home), to supply us with really good plates. It is a source of 
regret to us that this trust has, in some instances, been but ill 
requited. 
The white collar, immediately below the crimson papillose 
skin of the neck, is,as Blyth correctly pointed out a quarter of a 
century ago, a seasonal ornament, assumed, as part of the nup- 
tial plumage, about April. Atthis same time the crimson above 
this becomes brighter, as does the red of the legs, and the 
tertiaries and longer scapulars become whiter and more or 
less elongated, though never to the extent observable in the 
Common Crane. 
The young birds have the heads and necks covered with pale 
rusty feathers, (which gradually drop off during the latter part 
of their first cold season,) and not bare as in the adults. 
