. The birds of the Japanese Empire. Birds. 351 355. GRUS JAPONENSIS. (SACRED CRANE.) Ardea (Grus) japonemis, Miiller, Natursyst Suppl. p. 110 (1776). The Sacred Crane has a white body like the Siberian White Crane, but the forehead, lores, chin, fore neck, lower hind neck, and disintegrated tertials are black. No other Japanese Crane has a white body and a black fore neck. Figures: Wolf, Zool. Sketches, series i. pi. 46; Tegetmeier, Nat. Hist. Cranes, pp. 13, Ch-us japonensis. The Sacred Crane, so called because it was formerly held sacred in Japan, and was only allowed to be haw
. The birds of the Japanese Empire. Birds. 351 355. GRUS JAPONENSIS. (SACRED CRANE.) Ardea (Grus) japonemis, Miiller, Natursyst Suppl. p. 110 (1776). The Sacred Crane has a white body like the Siberian White Crane, but the forehead, lores, chin, fore neck, lower hind neck, and disintegrated tertials are black. No other Japanese Crane has a white body and a black fore neck. Figures: Wolf, Zool. Sketches, series i. pi. 46; Tegetmeier, Nat. Hist. Cranes, pp. 13, Ch-us japonensis. The Sacred Crane, so called because it was formerly held sacred in Japan, and was only allowed to be hawked with great ceremony by nobles of the highest rank (otherwise known as the Manchurian Crane, because it breeds in that country), has been known as a Japanese bird from time immemorial. It is the Ciconia grus Japo- nensis of Brisson; the Ardea grus /3 of Gmelin; the Japan Crane of Latham; la Grue du Japon of Buffon; and the 0-tsuri or Tsuri- sama of the Japanese. In 1823 it received the name of Grus viridi- rostris (Vieillot, Tableau Encycl. et Meth. iii. p. 1141); in 1829. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895. London, R. H. Porter
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