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INDIAN CRANE. 

 (Grus Antigone.) 



Gr. corpore cinereo, remigibus primoribus nigris, vertice macu- 



laque pone oculos albis, rostro Jiavo-virescente , pedibus rubris. 

 Crane with a grey body ; the primary quills black ; the crown 



and spot behind the eyes white ; the beak yellowish green j 



the feet red. 

 Grus orientalis Indica. Briss, Orn. 5. 378. 7- 

 Ardea Antigone. Linn. Si/st,Nat, 1. 235. 6. — Gmel. Syst. Nat, 



1. 622. — Lath, Ind. Orn. 2. 674. 4. 

 Grue ^ collier. Buff, Ois, 7. 307. variety.— Bwjf. PI, Enl. 865. 



var. 



Indian Crane. Edw, pi. 45, — Lath, Gen. Syn.5. 38. 5, — Lath, 

 Syn, Sup, 232, 



Length five feet: beak greenish yellow, with 

 the tip dusky : irides bright reddish hazel : the 

 crown of the head naked, and white, with a small 

 spot on each side, near the ears, similar 5 the rest 

 of the head, and part of the neck, covered with a 

 naked red skin : the general colour of the plumage 

 is of a fine cinereous ; the neck lightest : the quills 

 are black, the secondaries cinereous ; those nearest 

 the body are pointed at the ends, and longer than 

 the quills, over which they hang : the tail is ash- 

 coloured : the legs and naked space above the 

 knee are red : the claws white. 



Two varieties are described by Latham, but 

 whether they are referrible to this species is some- 

 what doubtful : one differs in being nine inches 



