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THE EASTERN SARUS CRANE 
GRUS ANTIGONE 
PLATE VIII. 
The Greater Indian Crane, Edw. Nat. Hist. B. I. p. 45, pi. 45 (1743)- 
La Grue DBS INDES Orientates, Brlss. Orn. V. p. 378 {1760). 
Ardea ANTIGONE, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1 . p. 142 (1760) — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 . p. 622 (1788). 
INDI.-VN Crane, Lath. Gen. Syn. B. III. pt. i. p. 38 (1785). 
Grus ANTIGONE, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. XIII. p. 560 (1817) — Wagl. Syst. Av. Grus , sp. 10 (1827) — Gray, List Grallm 
Brit. Mus. p. 74 (1844) id. Gen. B. III. p. 552 (1845) — Beavan, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 762 — Blyth, B. Burmah, p. 137 (1875) — Oates, 
Str. Feath. V. p. 164 {1877) — Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 469 — Hume & Davis. Str. Feath. VI. p. 458 (1878) — Anderson, 
Zool. Results Exped. Gunnan, 684 (1878) — Hume, Str. Feath. VIII. p. 112 (1879) — Davis, in Hume & Marsh. Game-B. Ind. III. 
p. 5 (1880) — Oates, Str. Feath. X. p. 238 (1882) — id. Handb. B. Brit.-Burm. IL p. 354 (1883). 
Antigone antigone. Bp. Consp. IL p. 100 (1854) — Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXIII. p. 264 (1894). 
Grus (Antigone) Sharpii, Blanford Bull. B. O. C. XXX, p. VI (1895) '). 
Vernamlar 7 iames. The Eastern Sarus Crane (English); de Indische Kraanvogel (Dutch); la Grue Antigone (French); 
der Antigone Kranich (German). 
Adult. General colour bluish grey, and on the whole, closely resembling that of Grus collaris, only the white 
collar below the featherless part of the neck is wanting, and the inner secondaries are not white, but grey like the rest 
of the body. A few black hairs at the base of the bill and the throat, but not nearly so many as in G. collaris. The 
size is usually a trifle smaller than that of G. collaris. 
Immature. Similar to the immature of Grus collaris^ judging from a skin in the British Museum, from Penang. 
Chick. Yellowish brown buff, darker on the upper parts. 
Egg. Figured of the natural size plate XVII n'^. 5 from a specimen laid in the Zoological Garden of Amsterdam. 
Hab. Burmah, Siam, and Malay Peninsula. 
This is the Sarus Crane of the Siamese Peninsula and adjoining countries and although it has often been denied 
specific rank, the fact that all the birds from this quarter perfectly answer the description of it given above, whilst all 
the birds from India proper may be referred to G. collaris^ make me quite agree with Dr. Bowdler Sharpe in keeping 
the two forms separate. 
i) With all due respect to Dr. Blanford’s great autliority I am uot convinced that Edward’s figure of the greater Indian Crane is necessarily to be attributed to 
Grus collaris. I therefore prefer to follow the ordinary practice of calling the present bird Grtts antigone., and not Grtis sltarpii. 
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