A. Rostrum integerrimu7n ; ckvmt nudum ; orbit-e lilimosm, 

 A. Beak entire ; head naked ; orbits feathered. 



COMMON CRANE. 

 (Grus cinerea.) 



Gr. corpore cinereo, guld collo anlice occipiteque ntgricantey pileo 



remigibusque nigris, tectricibus intimis laceris. 

 Crane with a cinereous body j the throat, fore-part of the neck, 



and occiput, dusky; the pileus and quills black; the coverts 



with divided webs. 

 Ardea Grus. Linn, Si/st. Nat. 1. 234. 4,-^Linn, Faun. Suec, 



IGU—Gmel. Si/st. Nat. 1. 620. 4.— -Lath, Ind. Orn, 2.674. 5. 

 Grus. Briss, Orn. 5. 374. 6. pL 33.^Raii, Syn. Q5. a. 1. 

 La Grue. Buff, Ois. J, 287. P^* 14.— Buff, PL Enl. 769. 

 Grue cendree, Temm. Man, d'Orni, 356. 



Common Crane. Penn. Brit, Zool, 2. Jpp, 629. pL 6. — Penn, 

 Arct, Zool. 2. 453.— Will. Ang. 274. pi. 4S. — Alb. Brit. Birds* 

 2. 2^1' 65. — Phil. Trans, Ivi. 208. W. f- 4. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 

 5. 50. 5. — Lath, Syn. Sup, II. 298. 2. — Leucin. Brit. Birds, 4. 

 pi. 143,— Wale. Syn. 2, pi, 124. — Bexu, Brit, Birds, 2. 29.— 

 Mont. Orn, Diet, 1. — Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. — Bing, Anim, 

 Biog, 2, 285. 



The Common Crane is a large bird, frequently 

 measuring upwards of five feet in length : it has 

 the whole of the upper parts of the body of a grey- 

 brown : the throat, the fore-part of the neck, and 

 the occiput, are of a deep greyish black : forehead 

 and space between the beak and eye furnished 

 v/ith black hairs : the top of the head naked and 



