mean the Khingan range adjoining the Great Wall.
(_Timk._ II. 374, 378-379; _J. R. G. S._ vol. xliii.; _S. Setz._ 115.)
I see Ritter has made the same identification of Chaghan-Nor (II. 141).

NOTE 4.--The following are the best results I can arrive at in the
identification of these five cranes.

1. Radde mentions as a rare crane in South Siberia _Grus monachus_, called
by the Buraits _Kara Togorue_, or "Black Crane." Atkinson also speaks of "a
beautiful black variety of crane," probably the same. The _Grus monachus_
is not, however, jet black, but brownish rather. (_Radde, Reisen_, Bd. II.
p. 318; _Atkinson. Or. and W. Sib._ 548.)

2. _Grus leucogeranus_ (?) whose chief habitat is Siberia, but which
sometimes comes as far south as the Punjab. It is the largest of the
genus, snowy white, with red face and beak; the ten largest quills are
black, but this barely shows as a narrow black line when the wings are
closed. The resplendent golden eyes on the wings remain unaccounted for;
no naturalist whom I have consulted has any knowledge of a crane or
crane-like bird with such decorations. When 'tis discovered, let it be the
_Grus Poli_!

3. _Grus cinerea_.

4. The colour of the pendants varies in the texts. Pauthier's and the G.
Text have _red and black_; the Lat. S. G. _black_ only, the Crusca _black
and white_, Ramusio _feathers red and blue_ (not pendants). The _red and
black_ may have slipt in from the preceding description. I incline to
believe it to be the Demoiselle, _Anthropoides Virgo_, which is frequently
seen as far north as Lake Baikal. It has a tuft of pure _white_ from the
eye, and a beautiful black pendent ruff or collar; the general plumage
purplish-grey.

5. Certainly the Indian _Saras_ (vulgo Cyrus), or _Grus antigone_, which
answers in colours and grows to 52 inches high.

NOTE 5.--_Cator_ occurs only in the G. Text and the Crusca, in the latter
with the interpolated explanation "_cioe contornici_" (i.e. quails),
whilst the S. G. Latin has _coturnices_ only. I suspect this impression
has assisted to corrupt the text, and that it was originally written or
dictated _ciacor_ or _cacor_, viz. _chakor_, a term applied in the East to
more than one kind of "Great Partridge." Its most common application in
India is to the Himalayan red-legged partridge, much resembling on a
somewhat larger scale the bird so called in Europe. It is the "Francolin"
of Moorcroft's Travels, and the _Caccabis Chukor_ of Gray. Ac