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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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on four differentoccasions at Sandea, in February, and at Hilgra, onthe River Choka, in December, 1859, he could notget within shot. I think I cannot give a better reason for my notbeing able to give the figure of a skin of this bird,and for availing myself of Mr. Goulds friendly per-mission to copy the beautiful drawing in his work onthe Birds of Euroj^e. VOL. IV. E ^6 SllSKKIAN (KANK. The male has all its plumage a pure snow white,with the face and tour des yeux naked, rugose, red,and garnished with a few hairs; the ten first primariesof a deep black, not passed by the secondaries, whichend in long and disunited webs, like those of theCommon Crane; beak red; feet and legs lake red;iris white. The female resembles the male, but is larger. The young of the year have the head covered withyellow-ochie-coloured down; face, beak, and legs olivebrown; the rest like the adult, but less pure in colour.—Degland. It has been figured by Temminck and Laugier, andby Gould, B. of E., pi. 271. y
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N U M I D I A N C R A N iO. GRALLATORES. Family GRUIDJE. fBonajmrte.J Genus Grus. f LinjicBUs.J NUMIDIAN CRANE. Grus virgo. Grus virgo, numidica, virgo numidica vulgo dictu,Ardea virgo. Anthropoides virgo, Grue demoiselle,Jungfern-Kranich,Damigella di Numidia, Pallas; Zoog., 1811.Ketserltng et Blasius. Temminck. Schinz. Schlegel. Brisson; Ornithologie, 1760.LiNN^TTS; Syst. Nat., 1760.Gmelin; Syst., 1788.Latham; Ind., 1790.Vieillot; Diet., 1816.Bonaparte, 1850. Degland, 1849.Of the French.Of the Germans.Savt. Specific Characters.—Head entirely covered with feathers, witha long tuft on each side; some of the wing coverts muchlengthened. Nostrils basal. Length three feet three inches; beaktwo inches and a half; tail six inches and a half; tarsus seveninches; middle toe and claw three inches; outer toe two inchesand one line; inner toe two inches and three lines; expanse ofwing four feet and three quarters. 28 NUMIDIAN CRANE. There Is something so characteristic in the Cranesas a genus,

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