Sandhill Crane
Ad. in breeding plumage. - Center of the crown and throat white, sides of the crown black, this color meeting on the back of the head, where the feathers are lengthened to form an occipital crest: neck pale grayish brown, a narrow black, white, and ochraceous line down the middle of the foreneck; feathers of the lower foreneck narrow and much lengthened, whitish with sometimes black streaks; back, wing-coverts, and tail slaty gray, the scapulars paler, narrow, and much lengthened; bend of the wing chestnut-rufous; a patch of black and white feathers on the side of the breast; breast and belly streaked with black and white and sometimes pale rufous; feathers on legs dull rufous, legs and feet black, upper mandible oliveyellow, the culmen blackish; lower mandible yellow; lores blue. Im.- Similar, but entire crown black, throat white, neck brownish gray washed with buffy ochraceous; no black at the sides of the breast or plumes on the lower neck; under parts streaked with black, slaty, white, and ochraceous; bend of wings and feathers on legs paler; back slaty grayish brown without lengthened plumes. "L., 42.00-50.00; W., 17-90-19-85; B., 4·30-6.25; Tar., 6.00-8.00" (Ridgw.).