Birds and Birding's Guide to:

Watching THE CRANE-LIKE BIRDS

THE CRANES, COURLANS, AND TRUMPETERS

The other species of Cranes

(G. lilfordi) assembles in the same immense flocks in its Indian winter home, and spends the summer in or close to the Arctic Circle.

The nests are constructed on the ground in marshy, swampy places, and the eggs, two in number, are four inches long by two and five eighths inches broad, and pale greenish olive-brown blotched and spotted with darker shades of the same.

The remaining closely allied forms are the White-headed Crane (G. monachus) of eastern Siberia, southern Japan, and China, which has the sides of the neck, throat, and entire sides of the face pure white; the Black-necked Crane (G. nigricollis) of Koko-nor, characterized by the smoky black head and neck, and the Japanese Crane (G. japonensis), an immense bird fifty inches long and almost pure white throughout, which ranges in summer over eastern Siberia, Korea, and Japan, and winters in China.

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