THE STANLEY CRANE 
ANTHROPOIDES PARADISEA 
PLATES XI, XIa. 
Ardea PARADISEA, Licht. Cat. Rer. Rariss. Hamb. p. 28 (1793) —^ id. Verz. Doubl. p. 78 (1823). 
Tetrapteryx CAPENSIS, Thunb. K. Vetensk. Akad. Forh. 1818, p. 242, t. 8. 
ANTHROPOIDES STANLEYANUS, Vigors, Zool. Journ. II. p. 234, pi. 8 (1826) — Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 303 (1867) — Chapin. Trav. S. 
Air. II. app. p. 417 (1868) — Ayres, Ibis, 1869 p. 300 — Layard, t. c. p. 376 — Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 269 — Barratt, Ibis, 
1876, p. 209. 
Grus stanleyana, Wagl. Syst. Av. Gms, sp. 3 (1827). 
Grus PARADISEA, Wagl. t. c. Sp. 8 — Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 54 (1859) — Schleg. Mus. P.-B., Ralli, p. 6 (1865) — Finsch & Hartl. 
Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 671 (1870) — Tegetm. & Blyth, Monogr. Cranes, p. 23 (1881) — Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 363 — Butler, Feilden & 
Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 342. 
Grus capensis. Less. Tr. d’Orn. p. 587 (1831). 
ANTHROPOIDES PARADISEA, Less. op. cit. p. 587 — Martin, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 30 — Gray, List. Grallce Brit. Mus. p. 75 (1844) — id. 
Handl. B. III. p. 25, no. 10093 (1871) — Sharpe & Layard, B. S. Africa, p. 628 (1884). 
Scops paradisea, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. III. p. 553 (1843) — J. E. Gray, Knows. Men. pi. XIV (1846). 
Tetrapteryx paradisea. Bp. consp. II. p. loi (1854) — Gurney in Andersson’s B. Dam. Land, p. 278 (1872) — Buckley, Ibis, 1874, 
p. 389 — Holub & Pelz. Beitr. Orn. S.-Afr. p. 248 (1882) — Forbes, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 353 — Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXIII. 
p. 268 (1894). 
Geranus paradisea, Bp. Compt. Rend. XXXVIII. p. 661, note (1854). 
Grus CAFFra, Fritsch, Drei Jahre in Sudafr. p. 108 (1868). 
Vernacular names. The Stanley Crane (English); de Paradijskraan (Dutch); la Grue de Paradis (French); der 
Paradies Kranich (German); Great Locust bird (Cape); Gropte Sprinkhaanvogel (Boers, Transvaal). 
Adult. General colour above and below bluish pearl-grey, the feathers of the upper surface with more or less 
visible pale ashy margins. Primaries black, secondaries dark grey, the innermost ones grey, like the back, with black 
tips, enormously lengthened, falcated, pointed, and nearly touching the ground. Lores and crown white. Feathers of 
cheeks, ear-region and nape dark ashy-grey, lengthened, disintegrated and loose, so as to form a ball. Feathers of fore 
neck elongated and pointed. Bill flesh colour. Iris blackish-brown. Legs greyish horn-colour. (From a living bird at Lilford 
Hall). Total length about 40 inches; males generally larger than the females. Wing 23', tail 8|^', tarsus 12', culmen 4', 
middle toe & claw 31' (Specimen in the Leiden Museum). 
Immature. Similar to the adult, but general colour lighter. Head feathers whitish grey, and not so much lengthened 
nor so loose. Inner secondaries very little lengthened and not black at the tips but only a little darker. Feathers of the 
fore neck not lengthened nor pendent. (Figured on plate XIa from a skin in the Leiden Museum). 
Chick. Down pearly grey, darkest at the base of the neck on the back and over the wings. A light line over 
each shoulder. Down of the head yellow. On the whole closely resembling the chick in down of A. virgo. (From a 
chick of about 2 or 3 weeks old in the Paris Museum). 
Egg. Figured of the natural size plate XVIII n°. 2 from a specimen laid in the Zoological Garden of Cologne. 
Hab. South Africa, east to Mashona-land, west to Great Namaqualand and Damaraland. 
