called by the Buraits _Kará Togorü_, or “Black Crane.” Atkinson
also speaks of “a beautiful black variety of crane,” probably the
same. The _Grus monachus_ is not, however, jet black, but brownish
rather. (_Radde, Reisen_, Bd. II. p. 318; _Atkinson. Or. and W.
Sib._ 548.)