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BALEARIC CRANE. 



the feathers which on the lower part of the neck are long, 

 terminate in a point, and rest on the crop; some of 

 these feathers are seven inches long. All the under 

 and the lesser upper wing coverts are white; the greater 

 coverts nearest the body are russet, the farthest removed 

 blackish; primaries black; secondaries maroon, those 

 nearest the body very long, and when the wing is closed 

 extend nearly as far as the longest primary. The tail 

 is composed of twelve blackish feathers. The iris grey 

 white; beak grey brown. The naked part of the thighs 

 and feet are blackish ash-colour; claws blackish. 



The female is black where the male is blue ash, 

 the wattles on the throat are wanting, and the long 

 pectoral feathers less conspicuous. 



The following are Brisson's measurements: — Length 

 from tip of beak to end of tail two feet nine inches; 

 from beak to end of claws three feet eight inches; beak 

 from point to the oral angle two inches and a half. 

 Tail five inches; bare part of thigh four inches and a 

 half; tarsus eight inches ten lines; middle toe three 

 inches and a half; outer two inches seven lines; interior 

 two inches four lines; hinder toe one inch. Expanse 

 of wings five feet six inches, and when closed they 

 extend just to three fourths of the length of the tail. 



My figure is from a specimen in the Zoological 

 Gardens, London. 



It has also been figured by Brisson, vol. v, pi. 41, 

 a female; Buffon, pi. enl. 265. 



The egg is from Thienemann. 



Grus antigone, Keyserling and Blasius, (Ardea an- 

 tigone, JAn., Grus orientalis indica, l^x\s,s,on, Ardea 

 torquata, Latham, Grus torquata et antigone, Vieillot,) 



