Genos LXV. H E R O N .
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INDIAN CR.
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GIGANTIC CR.
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D e s c r i p t i o n .
N ' 80. African H . N° 82. Yellow-necked H.
81. Lohaujung H .
Indian Crane, Gen. Syn. v. p. 38. N° 4.
,T 'H I S bird is very common in great flocks north of Calcutta.
Gigantic Crane, Gen. Syn. v. p. 45. N* 8.
J H A V E three or four times met with this bird in paintings
done in the country which it inhabits ; but the moft faithful
reprefentation will be found in the drawings o f Lady Impey, under
whofe infpeftion it was done from the life in India. The fize is
allowed to be from five to feven feet in length, and, when Handing
ereft, it is five feet high. The bill of a vaft fize, lharp-
pointed, comprefled on the fides, o f a yellowifli white colour, and
opens very far back into the head; the noftrils, a flit placed high
up near the bafe : the whole head and neck are naked j the front
is yellow j the fore part o f the neck the fame, but more dull; the
hind part o f the head and neck red, with here and there a warty
excrefcence, mixed with a few ftraggling hairs curled at the ends:
the craw hangs down on the fore part o f the neck, like a pouch,
and twines round the back part 5 the lower part o f it furnifhed
with hairs, like the reft o f the neck, but at the bottom are in
greater number, and of a triangular form : the upper part o f the
back and lhoulders are furrounded with white downy feathers; the
back
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