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BROWN CRANE. 



makes a loud noise, which betrays its course. 

 The female lays two greyish green eggs, spotted 

 with brown. 



BROWN CRANE. 

 (Grus Canadensis.) 



Gr. corpora cinereo, dorso rufescente, alls rufescentibus Jascid 



grised, r 

 Crane with a grey body ; the back reddish 5 the quills rufescent, 



with a griseous fascia. 

 Grus Freti Hudsonis. Briss. Orn. 5. 385. 11. 

 Grus Mexicanus. Briss. Orn. 5. 380. 8. var. 

 Grus Indicus. RaiL Syn. 95. 2. var. 



Ardea Canadensis. Linn, Syst. Nat. I. 234. 3. — Gmel, Syst. 



Nat. 1. 620. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 675. 7. 

 LaGruebrune. Buff. Ois. 'J. 310, 

 La Grue brune du Mexique. Buff. Ois. 7. 312. 

 Brown Crane. Fenn. Arct. Zool. 340. — Edw. pL 133. — Lath. 



Gen. Syn. 5. 43. 7.— Lath. Syn. Sup. IL 2gg. 4. 



Latham thus delineates the characters of this 

 species : Length three feet three inches : weight 

 seven pounds and a half : beak three inches and 

 three quarters, and dusky, but the tip of the under 

 mandible is pale flesh-colour : the top of the head 

 covered with a red skin, thinly beset with hairs : 

 cheeks and throat whitish : the hind head and 

 neck are grey : the upper part of the back, scapu- 

 lars, and wing-coverts, pale rufous, margined with 



