WADERS. 
CRANE. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill straight, long, and pointed. 
Nostrils linear. 
Tongue acute. 
Four toes on each foot. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Ardea Grus. . A. occipite nudo papillose), pileo remigibusque 
nigris, corpore cinereo, rectricibus intimis 
laceris. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1. p. 620. 
With a bald crown, quill feathers black, body 
ash-coloured, tail feathers divided from the 
bottom. 
Common Crane. Buff. Birds, v. 7. p. 277- ph 175. Lath. 
Syn. 3. p. 40. n. 5. JVill. Orn. p. 374. 
t. 48. Penn. Brit. Zool. Jpp. p. 629. t. 1. 
Bew. Birds, 2. p. 29. 
K^mpfer, in his History of Japan, tells us that 
cranes are considered in that country as animals 
of good omen, and that the apartments of the em- 
