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The Zoological Society of Amsterdam received the first specimens of the White-necked Crane in 1869, and has 
since never been without one or more examples of this species. The Zoological Society of London obtained the first birds 
in 1873. This species is rare in collections, and is never received in large numbers, the principal importer of them being 
Mr. William Jamrach. In continental Gardens, Amsterdam excepted, it is only occasionally found, in fact I can only 
remember having seen it at Antwerp and Berlin. In private collections I saw a beautiful specimen in the late Capt. E. 
W. Marshall’s menagerie at Great Marlow in 1893, and in the autumn of 1894 there were four or five in splendid con¬ 
dition in the Cranery at Lilford Hall. 
These birds bear confinement well, and do not mind the roughness of the winters of Western Europe. 
The voice of this species, though different from that of A. leucogeranus is more akin to it than to that of other 
Cranes. When it screams its movements also slightly resemble the exagerated antics of that same species. To my mind 
these two species are very near related. 
The plate represents a pair of old birds and a young one born in confinement living in the Zoological Gardens of 
Amsterdam in 1872. 
I have not not been able to get a specimen of sternum with trachea undoubtedly belonging to the present species. 
