ILLUSTRATIONS OF FOREIGN OOLOGY. 
GRUS ANTIGONE. 
Our active correspondent, Mr. Blyth, has favoured us with two 
drawings of the egg of this noble Crane, together with the following 
observations on the Cranes of India :— 
“ The eggs were laid by_a tame bird that has the range of a 
garden, and were unimpregnated. They do not accord with Captain 
Tickell’s notice of the egg of Grus antigone, in Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. xvii. 303; and we doubt that those described as frequently 
brought to him in Singbhoom and also in Manbhoom, where they 
are tolerably common —(‘ colour pure white, not quite so pure 
as in the domestie fowl, without spot or mark of any kind ;’ 
‘length about 3} by 28 inches,’ and ‘ generally two in the nest, 
which ig a raised heap of rushes, &c., placed in heavy grass 
jungle, in retired places, generally at the foot of hills, covered with 
forests, July,’)— were the eggs of Grus antigone, upon the evidence 
of the two undoubted specimens here figured, although these were 
produced by an unimpregnated bird in confinement. At the same 
time, it is difficult to guess what the eggs described by Captain Tic- 
kell could have been. All the Stork tribe build on trees and other 
elevations, Mycteria, as we are informed, upon the highest trees, 
while the Anatide lay numerous eggs ; besides, that no species that 
breeds in India could lay so large an egg as that described by Captain 
Tickell. We can only suggest that they may be those of the migra- 
tory or lesser Indian Adjutant, Leptophilos javanicus ( Ciconia 
capillata of Temminck); but even these would probably be laid in 
nests, placed high upon the largest trees, in conformity with the 
nidificatory habits of the group. However, the Sdras or Surhuns 
(Grus antigone) does breed in India, unlike the Kurlung or 
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