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I'he Brown and Ajh-colouBd Crane. 
r- his Bird, tho’ large, I take to be not a third Part of the Bignefs of the lad 
,'I_ defcribed Crane : The Bill is about four Inches long j the Wing when clofed 
eighteen Inches; the Bone of the Leg from the Knee to the Foot feven Inches long; 
the middle Toe better than three Inches long. I find the Meafures in this Bird do not 
exactly bear the fame Proportions with thofe of the foregoing, tho’ they have each of 
them all the Marks that belong to Birds of the fame Genus. 
The Bill of this Bird is made like that of the lad defcribed, having a Channel on 
each Side, with the Nodrils placed therein ; of a black or dufky Colour, except the 
Point of the lower Mandible, which is light Flefh-colour’d. The Top of the Plead 
From the Bill to the Ear-holes is cover’d with a bare Skin of a reddifh Colour, thinly 
befet with black Hairs; the Sides of the Head beneath the Eyes, and the under Side or 
Throat is White; the Hinder-part of the Head and the Neck all round are Afh-co- 
lour’d; the Bottom of the Neck or Beginning of the Bread, from Afh-colour gradually 
becomes Brown; the Beginning of the Back and Covert-Feathers of the Wings are 
alfo of a light-reddifb Brown, their Tips being fomething darker, which forms an 
agreeable Variety; the greater Quills are of a blackifh Brown with white Shafts, thofe 
that fall next the Back are Brown, and of a loofe, foft Texture, whofe Points extend 
beyond the Prime Qmlls when the Wings are clofed. In the lower Part of the 
Wing there paffes obliquely above the black Quills a whitifh Afh-colour’d Plat of Fea¬ 
thers ; the inner Coverts of the Wings are Afh-Colour. The Tail-Feathers are of a 
brownifh Afh-Colour. The Bread from Brown becomes of an Afh-Colour, which 
reaches to the Covert-Feathers of the Tail inclufive, growing lighter in its Advance 
backward ; fo that the under Coverts of the Tail are whitifh ; the lower Part of the 
Back, the Rump, and upper Coverts of the Tail are of a light Afh-Colouf ; the Legs 
are bare of Feathers above the Knees, the outer Toe is joined a little Way to the Mid¬ 
dle one; the Legs, Feet and Nails, or Claws, are all of a black Colour. 
This Bird was brought from Htidfon's-Bay by Mr. IfJoam, ^ho fays, it is found there only 
in the Summer Seafon. Cranes differ from Pierons in the following Particulars ; in having 
the Bill fhorter in Proportion, and not fo {harp-pointed ; in having fomething of a Balcneis 
on the Head ; in having firmer and fhorter Feathers on the Neck and Back ; in having Legs 
longer, and Toes fhorter in Proportion, and in not having the middle Claw toothed. This is 
to be underdood of the Crane-kind, more ftrictly fo call’d, for fome other Birds have got 
the Name of Cranes, which I fhould chufe to make a diflindt Genus, to which belongs two 
forts of crefbed Cranes, viz. That call’d the Balearic Crane , and the Numidian Crane, or De- 
ttioifel of JShmidia. The lafl of thefe is defcribed in the following Page, and the other in 
Page 192 of this Work. I cannot difcover that any Defcription or Figure of this Bird hath 
been yet publifhed, fo that I believe I may pronounce it a Non-defcript. The Greater Indian 
Crane defcribed, P. 45. of this Work, belongs firi&ly to the Genus of the above defcribed, --as 
yvell as the foregoing. 
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