THE SUOWWREATH OR SIBE 
RIAN CRANE, 
O—_———= 
Grus leucogeranus, Pa//as. 
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Vernacular Names.—[Kare-Khur, Care-Kur, (Hindee) VV. W. Provinces; 
Tunhi, Oudh ; Chini Kulung, Hansi ; Syakbal, Cadul.] 
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WINTER migrant only, to India, the range within 
our limits of this magnificent species is as yet quite 
undefined. 
I know of its occurrence now as a pretty regular 
visitant to several districts in Oudh, and to many dis- 
tricts of the N.-W. Provinces, north and east of the 
Jumna, and Mr. Forsyth observed a flock at Dehree- 
on-Soane, It has occurred once, at any rate, at the Najafgurh © 
Jhil, or lake, south of Delhi, and Jerdon wrote to me that he had 
met with it in 1864 near Kurnal, and ascertained its occurrence 
near Hansi. I observed it in two places in Northern Sindh, 
west of the Indus, and Mr. Doig has seen it on the Eastern 
Narra, east of that river. | 
But it occasionally, at any rate, wanders much further south, as 
Colonel McMaster records having killed one at Koohee, twenty 
miles south-east of Kampti (near Nagpur) on the 3rd of Feb- 
ruary. This is in about 21° north latitude, about the same 
parallel as Surat. 
On passage both Mr. Wilson and myself have met with it at 
lakes far in the interior of the Himalayas. 
Beyond this I possess no certain information ; and, though 
Jerdon remarks that it has been said to occur in the Punjab and 
Rajasthan, I have heard of it nowhere in the former, except in 
the extreme eastern portions, in the places above mentioned, 
and nowhere at all in the latter. 
Outside our limits it occurs in Afghanistan, Eastern Turkes- 
tan, in various parts of Siberia, Mongolia, Manchuria, and 
Japan, and very rarely in Northern China. 
Prjevalsky saw a flock in October at the Kokonor, obviously 
on passage, and in Eastern Turkestan also it is probably only 
a passing migrant, as indeed appears to be the case in Eastern 
Russia, where it is regularly seen on the spring migration. 
