ML641747575

Observation details

Przewalski noted that this was a species new to science. "This Crane was found by us only at Koko-nor, in a few pairs, which arrived there on the 30th of March, and most likely remained to breed." (Prjevalsky [= Przewalski], 1877, p. 436-437) Prjevalsky [= Przewalski], N. (1877), ‘On the birds of Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the solitudes of Northern Tibet’, translated from Russian by E. Carl Craemers, in Rowley, G.D., ed. Ornithological miscellany, vol. 2, pp. 137-204, 271-320, & 379-438. Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35519712 (page 137, title page of paper). Accessed 12 September 2025.