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I OBSERVE that in your report of the meeting of the Zoological Society on the 6th ult., in your issue of the 15th, it is stated, with reference to Grus vipio (seu leucauchen), that “no example of this fine species, so far as was known, had previously been brought alive to Europe.” Last autumn, when going over the Zoological Gardens at Amsterdam with the superintendent, Mr. Hegt, I saw there a splendid pair of these birds, which had been purchased for 140l., and had bred the same spring, and reared successfully a fine young bird, about two-thirds grown when I saw it in September, destined, as I was informed by Mr. Hegt, for the Berlin Gardens. The collection of cranes at Amsterdam is exceedingly rich, far surpassing either London or Antwerp in this respect. It contained, when I saw it, fourteen out of the fifteen valid species of Grus, comprising, besides the above-mentioned, G. vipio, a splendid pair of G. viridirostris, a fine G. leucogeranus, G. carunculatus, G. canadensis, G. Americana, G. torquata, &c., the desideratum being G. monacha, of Japan.
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FORBES, W. Grus vipio. Nature 8, 164 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008164b0
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