Family GRUIDÆ.
Characters same as those given for the Order.
Genus ANTIGONE Reichenbach, 1852.
Characters same as those given for the Order.
130. ANTIGONE SHARPI Blanford.
SHARPE’S CRANE.
- Antigone antigone (not Ardea antigone Linnæus) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1894), 23, 264.
- Antigone sharpii Blanford, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club (1895), 5, 6.
- Antigone sharpei Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 178; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 94; McGregor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1904), 4, 11, pl. 2; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 31.
Tipol, Luzon.
Luzon (McGregor, Worcester). Burma, Cochin China, and Malay Peninsula.
Adult.—Nearly uniform pearl-gray, lighter on neck; head and neck nearly naked to 100 mm. or more below anterior border of ear-coverts; a few gray feathers on chin and ear-coverts; a few scattered black hair-like feathers on upper throat and its sides.