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BIEDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
of this bird^ whicli Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay recently examined in Edinburgh^ 
formed part of a collection made at Darjeeling ; but Prof. Traquair, of the 
Edinburgh Museum_, kindly informs me that some of the birds in this same 
collection came from Cachar^ and the Finfoot may consequently have been 
shot in this part of India and not at Darjeeling. It is not unlikely, how- 
ever^ to be found in the hill-streams of the Himalayas as far west as 
Nipal. 
This bird has been found, as above recorded, in a swamp ; Mr. Davison 
shot it on the sea-coast and in mountain-streams far in the depths of the 
forest, so that it appears to affect all parts of the country. It swims well 
with all the body immersed ; but when disturbed it takes wing or 
scrambles up the bank of the stream into the jungle. 
Suborder ALECTORIDES. 
Family GRUIDiE. 
Genus GEUS, Bechst. 
705. anus ANTIGONE. 
THE SARUS CRANE. 
Ardea antigone, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p, 235. Grus antigone, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 
p. 662 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 584 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 157 ; Oates, S. F. v. 
p. 164 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 469 j Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 468 ; 
Anderson, Yunnan Exped. p. 684; Hume, S. i^. viii. p. 112; Hume ^ Marsh. 
Game Birds, iii. p. 1, pi. ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 238. 
Description. — Head and a portion of the neck naked; brick-red in 
colour ; the whole plumage greyish blue ; the quills and inner webs of the 
tail-feathers darker; ear- coverts white ; the nape and naked portion of the 
neck covered with black hair-like feathers. 
At the breeding-season^ from April to October there is a white collar 
immediately below the naked portion of the neck ; the scapulars and 
tertiaries become lengthened and white. 
Irides reddish orange ; bill and coronal skin greenish glaucous ; skin of 
the face and neck pale brick-red ; legs fleshy pink^ brownish in front. 
{Wardlaw Ramsay.) 
Length about 55 inches^ tail 11, wing 26, the tertiaries extending some 
