NUMIDIAN CRANE. 
Edwards, whose figure we have taken, o^>- 
serves that, the draw hig being taken from hfe,. 
as the bird walked in a garden, he could get no- 
measures of it; *' I shall, therefore," says he,' 
*' give them from the Memoirs of the Royal 
Academy at Paris, where a disse6lion of it 
may be seen. ^' From the point of the bill, to.: 
the ends of the feet extended, it was three feet 
and a half ; the beak measured two inches.'* 
[I suppose, remarks Edwards, it does not 
mean, to the angles of the mouth; for that, L 
believe, would measure more.] From the 
thigh bone, to the extremity of :he greatest 
toe, was ten inches." [I suppose, observes 
Edwards, this last article means, from what we 
call the knee, to the end of. the greater toe.] 
The above measures must be according to the 
standard foot of Paris. The bird appeared to 
me to be something less than a Heron." 
The description of the bird figured, Ed- 
wards gives with his customary minuteness 
and accuracy. " The bill," says he, " though 
short for the Crane kind, appeared to me to be 
longer than the above measure : it is straight, 
and ends, in a point ; the thicker part next the 
head 
