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At. Cafvt plumosuttii 

 A, HEADjeathered, 



NUMIDIAN DEMOISELLE. 

 ( Anthropoides Virgo.) 



An. corpore cceruleo-cinereoy capite remigihusque primariis apice 

 nigrisj pone oculos uirinque crista pennaced recurvatd longd 

 alba. 



Demoiselle with the body of a blue-grey 5 the head and tip of 

 the primary quills black j behind the eyes on each side a 

 recurved, elongated^ pennaceous, white crest. 



Ardea Virgo. Ldnn, Syst. Nat. 1. 234. I.—Gmel. Sijst. Nat. 1* 

 619. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 6/3. 2. 



Grus Numidica. Briss. Orn. 5. 388. 12. 



La Gruede Numidie, ou Demoiselle. Buf. Ois. 7. 313.pl. 15.. — 



Buf. PL Enl. 241. 

 Demoiselle, or Numidian Crane. Mb. Birds. 3* pi. 83. — Edwo 



pi. 134. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 35. 



This highly elegant species is as large as the 

 Crane, and measures three feet three inches in 

 length : its beak is two inches and a half long, 

 with the base greenish, the middle yellowish, and 

 the tip red : the irides are crimson : the crown of 

 the head is cinereous ; the rest of the head, the 

 nape, and under parts of the neck to the breast, are 

 black : behind each eye springs an elegant tuft of 

 long white feathers, which hang downwards : the 

 feathers of the breast are long and dependent : the 

 under parts of the body, from the breast, the back, 



