40 THE DEMOISELLE CRAKE.
Eastern Siberia, and more or less of Northern China, Manchuria
and Mongolia.
In Australia, there is the Sarus-like, native companion, G.
atisti alasiauus. In Southern Africa we have the somewhat
aberrant G.caiunculatus, Antliropoidesparadisea,and the Southern
Crowned-Crane {Baleárica regulorum), and in the north, extending
perhaps to some of the Islands of the Mediteranean, the
Crowned-Crane (B. pavonina.) Lastly, America has three, or
possibly four, species of true Crane.
POSTSCRIPT.—Long after the above had been in type, Captain
FitzHerbert, of the Rifle Brigade, favoured me with the following
note :—" Yesterday, August the 25th, a native brought in
two specimens of the Demoiselle Crane, which he said had been
killed at the Sohan River near this station, Rawulpindee."
Were these accidental lingerers, like the Swans (p. 44,) seen
in July ? More probably they were early arrivals, and since the
Common Crane appears in Sindh in August, (p. 22,) perhaps
this species also returns to the extreme western and northwestern
portions of the empire in that month.