ILLUSTRATIONS OF FOREIGN OOLOGY. 
and as might be supposed, exhibiting gradations from species to 
species, as shown by the intermediate Gr. carunculata, figured by 
Messrs. G. R. Gray and Mitchell. Balearica is a much better 
division, and in this the trachea does not enter’ a cavity in the 
sternal ridge, as in the other Cranes in common with the Trumpeter 
Swans. 
“ These elegant birds have, again, a carriage widely different 
from that of any Ardeade ; and they are particularly remarkable 
for their manner of dancing, as it may well be termed, with 
wings extended, several thus playing together with amusing acti- 
yity. Hence the names Demoiselle and Virgo applied to the small 
Kakarra, as it is termed in India, They are easily tamed, and 
their handsome appearance and graceful movements render them 
favourites wherever kept, ranging at large in parks or pleasure- 
grounds, with wings cut, however, to prevent their leaving in the 
breeding season, after which they would very probably return if not 
elsewhere captured; but such escaped individuals descend at once 
to the loud trumpet-call of a tame one from below, when they are 
again caught and deprived of the means of flight. In general, they 
are very gentle creatures, but not when they have young to protect, 
or the male is getting into season, on which occasions the large 
Indian Saras is rather a formidable foe, as fierce ‘as dauntless ; 
but it is not difficult to catch him suddenly by the neck, being 
at the same time wary of his claws; he cannot then be suffered 
to range about as usual, as he comes boldly up and attacks every 
one. The adults keep in pairs at all-seasons, even though the 
pairs should associate into flocks; and our informant tells us, 
that he now knows of a male Girus cinerea, paired with a female 
G. antigone, in a paddock where several of both species are kept, 
both being perfectly tame and gentle, though, if the lady Siras be 
molested in any way, her under-sized bean comes up at once to 
make a show of attack, prancing around the intruder with expanded 
wings. We look with interest to know if any result will follow 
this union. The two species have much the same loud trumpet 
cries, but which are nevertheless very distinguishable ; and the 
sdund from on high is familiar to most residents in India, as the 
flocks pass over at a great’ altitude, flying like wild geese in a 
line, or more generally an open wedge. 
“In some parts of that country the Sdras is protected by the 
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