Identifier: historybirdsEurIVBree (find matches)
Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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t three inches and a half long, veryflexible, which hang behind, and move with eachmovement of the birds head. The bottom of the in-ferior part of the neck is covered with black feathers. 32 IS^UMIDIAN CRANE. which are lengthened, and terminate in very flexiblepoints, some of them are nine inches long, and hangover the crop. The primaries are ash-coloured on theirbasal, and black on their distal halves; the secondariesare of an ashy hue, those nearer the body being longand pointed, and, when the wing is shut, reach to theend of the primaries. The tail consists of twelvefeathers, bluish ash, terminated with blackish. Irisbrilliant red. The beak is green at its origin, yellowtowards the middle, and red at its extremity. Thenaked part of the thighs, tarsi, feet, and claws black. In the female the colours are less pure, and thetufts on the side of the head shorter. My figure of this bird is after Gould. It has also been figured by Edwards, pi. 134; Buifon,pi. enl. 241; and Gould, pi. 272.
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BALEARIC CRANE. 33 GRALLATORES. Family GRJJID^. (Bonaparte.) Genus Grus. (Linnceus.) BALEAEIC CRANE. Grus pavonina. Grus pavonina, Beisson ; 1760. Ardea LiNNiEUS; 1766. Anthropides pavonina, ViEiLlOT; 1816. Balearica pavonina, ViGOES.Oiseaii Boyal and Balearique couronnee, Of the Feench. Specific Characters.—Sides of the head covered with a nakedskin in the form of ear-lobes; a membrane (not much extended)under the neck. Length from end of beak to tip of tail two feetnine inches, to end of toes three feet eight inches. It is witli mucli hesitation that I have admitted thisbird into the European list, and I only do so as adoubtful species. It is true we have many accounts ofits having been taken at Malta and the Balearic Islands,(Majorca and Minorca,) from whence indeed the genericname of Balearica was given to it by Brisson, who statedthat in his day (1760) it was common in those islands. 34 BALEARIC CRANE. Latham, writing twenty years after, says he is at aloss to imagine how the n

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