Title: The natural history of the cranes
Identifier: cu31924000102149 (find matches)
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873; Tegetmeier, W. B. (William Bernhard), 1816-1912
Subjects: Cranes (Birds)
Publisher: (London) Pub. for the author by H. Cox (etc. )
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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Chus antigone. 51 The convolutions of the trachea are developed to a greater extent in this species than in that of the Stanley crane figured at page 22. The sub- joined figure shows the trachea of an adult maloj one side of the keel of the sternum having been cut away. The preparation and drawing were made by myself from a bird that died in the Zoological Gardens in 1879. As the individual was perfectly matured, it is probable that the specimen shows as great a degree of convolution as occurs in this species.—^W. B. T.)
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Steknum and Teachba of Gktjs ahtigone. GRUS AUSTEALASIANUS. Gould. (Atjstbalian Okane.) Geus AUSTEALASIANUS, Gould, P.Z.S. 1847, p. 220 J Birds of Australia, vi., pi. xlviii. (1848.) Native Oompanion of Australian Colonists. The Australian crane is very like G. antigone at the first glance, but at once distinguishable by the legs and feet being brownish ashy instead of dull pinkish red, by the nude portion of the head not extending for some distance down the neck, and by the skin of the throat being lax and pendulous, as seen in no other species. It is the 0, antigone of the older catalogues of the birds of Australia. The description of this species I will quote from Mr. Gould's " Hand-book of the Birds of Australia" : The Orus austraUcmus is abundantly distributed over the greater portion of Australia, from New South Wales on the south to Port Bssington on the north; but, although it is thus widely difiused, it has not yet been observed in the colony of Swan River, and it does not inhabit Tasmania. It was frequently observed by Leichardt during his overland expedition from Moreton Bay; Oapt. Sturt states that it was very abundant on the Macquarie; and I found it numerous in the neighbourhood of the !Namoi and on the Brezi Plains in December, 1839, as well as on the low flat islands at the mouth of the Hunter. In these localities it might then have been seen at almost every season of the year, sometimes singly or in pairs, and at others in flocks of from thirty to forty in number. H 2

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