NUMIDIAN CRANE. 
ird is the 
This elegant and very curious b 
Ardea Virgo, of Linnaeus and Gmelin ; the 
Grus Numidica, of Klein and Brisson; the 
Demoiselle de Numidie, or Demoisselle of 
Numidia, of BufFon and Edwards; the Dan- 
cing Bird, of Pococke; and the Nuinidiaii 
Crane, of most other naturalists. 
** The Demoisselle of Numidia," says 
BuiFon, *' has all the proportions and the shape 
of the Crane, only on a smaller scale: both 
it's port, and it's garb, are the same ; and there 
is the same distribution of colours in the 
plumage, only that the grey is purer and more 
pearled. Two white tufts of unwebbed and 
liairy feathers, falling on each side of the head, 
form a sort of head-dress ; long, soft and 
silky hairs, of the finest black, lie on the 
crown of the head; similar feathers descend 
from the fore-part of the neck, and hang 
gracefully below it; and between the black 
€uills of the wings there appear bending tufts, 
which 
