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Tail . — Shafts of the feathers white, except at the tips; in 
other respects these feathers resemble the upper coverts, but 
the dark colour, occupying less space, causes a lighter irregular 
transverse band. 
Wings . — Third quill slightly longer than the second, and 
longest in the wing. Lesser coverts lead-gray, tinged in some 
parts with pale brown, the shaft lines nearly black ; greater 
coverts of a browner hue, much elongated, and with the webs 
disconnected, the concealed portions of the inner ones brownish 
black ; alula3 and primaries black, the latter brownish at the 
tips; secondaries and tertials black, with white shafts, and 
paler at the base, the innermost of the tertials brownish 
towards the tips. In the closed wing the tertials are longer 
than the primaries, and the last feathers of the tertiary coverts 
are longer than the tertials themselves. The long drooping 
“plumes” are formed by the greater coverts alone, especially 
by those nearest the body, and not by the tertials.* 
Tinder Surface of the Body indistinctly mottled with pale 
brownish grey and pale lead-grey, the shafts darker ; at the 
iq:)per part of the breast a few dirty white feathers are inter- 
mixed. 
Feet, tarsi, and bare part of the tibia brownish black, tinged 
with olive ; the under surface of the feet paler ; claws black. 
Again, on the 11th of May 1869, I heard that two Cranes 
were in the island, but my endeavours to obtain even a sight 
of one were unavailing until the evening of the 27th, when one 
of them was brought to me by a boy, who said that he had 
killed it near Lyea Sound. He stated that, seeing some people 
chasing it over the moors, he joined in the pursuit, and, 
being a swift runner, pressed it so closely that it turned and 
attacked him, upon which he threw two large stones, the second 
of which struck it upon the head and killed it ; he then dis- 
covered that the wing had been broken, probably by a shot. 
Several men and boys have since told me that they saw 
* This latter remark is no doubt in reference to the statement in Yarrell, 
that the plumes of the Crane are the tertial feathers. — Ed. 
