CROWNED DEMOISELLE. 



537 



Bluish Demoiselle, with the head black, adorned with an erect, 

 hairy, yellowish crest ; the wings white j the tail black. [Fe- 

 male black where the male is bluish j the wattle very small.) 



Ardea Pavonina. Linn. Syst. Nat, 1.233. 1. — Gmel.Syst. Nat. 

 1. 619. — Lath.Ind, Orn. 2. 672. 1. 



Grus balearica. Raii. Syn. p. 95. 3. — Briss. Orn. 5.511. \. pL 

 41. female. 



Grus capensis. Petiv, Gaz.pl. yQ.f. 9. 



L'Oiseau royal. Buff. Ois. 7.3x7. pi. \Q.—Buff. PL Enl. 265. 

 male. 



Balearic Crane, ^fill. Ang. p. 275. pU 48. 

 Crowned African Crane. Edvo. pi. 192. 



Crowned Heron. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 34. 1. — Gent. Mag. xx. pi. 

 in p. 261. 



This most beautiful bird is noticed by Latham 

 as follows : This is as large as the common 

 Heron : the length two feet nine inches : the beak 

 is two inches and a half long, straight, and of a 

 brownish colour : irides grey : the crown of the 

 head covered with soft black feathers, like velvet ; 

 on the hind part is a tuft composed of hair, or 

 rather bristles, arising near each other at the base, 

 and spreading out on all sides in a globular form ; 

 this is four inches in length, and of a reddish brown 

 colour : the sides of the head are bare of feathers, 

 being covered only by a fleshy membrane, of a 

 reddish colour at the lower part, and in shape not 

 unlike a kidney : on each side of the throat hangs 

 a kind of wattle : the general colour of the bird 

 bluish ash : the feathers on the fore-part of the 

 neck are very long, and hang over the breast: 

 wing-coverts white ; the greater ones incline to 

 rufous, and those farthest from the body to black : 



