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tions only are tenanted by Cranes; one species inhabits, or did rather inhabit, the British Islands,
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Genus Grus.
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935. GRUS CINEREA. : : : ‘ ; : . Xx

Common CRANE.

An accidental visitant.

236. GRus VIRGO.
Demoiselle Crane.
A native of Southern Europe, Northern Africa, and India, has been seen and one shot in Orkney, in May
1863 (Saxby, ‘ Zoologist,’ p. 8692). Not figured.
237. GRUS PAVONINUS.
Balearic Crane.
This bird has also been captured within the limits of Britain, and by some included in our lists of species
—wrongly, however, as I think, since its true home is north-western Africa, and its occurrence here must

have been quite accidental.

Family ARDEID.

If the Bitterns are included among the members of this universally dispersed family, then the species
amount to nearly a hundred in number. Unlike the Cranes, they are generally sedentary in their habits

and affect watery situations. In the British avifauna there are ten species.

Genus ArpEa.
238. ARDEA CINEREA . : : ; : : : : : : Vol. IVR xexe
Heron.

Resident and very generally dispersed.

239. ARDEA PURPUREA. : : : : : ‘ : : : : : Vol. IV. Pl. XXI.
Purpie Heron,

This fine bird, which js ; : : 3 ses
is fine bird, which js abundant in Holland and France, can only be considered an accidental visitor

to Britain.