It is also, I imagine,
the Arulun Tsaghan Balghasun which S. Setzen says Kublai built about the
same time with Shangtu and another city "on the shady side of the Altai,"
by which here he seems to mean the Khingan range adjoining the Great Wall.
(Timk. II. 374, 378-379; J. R. G. S. vol. xliii.; S. Setz. 115.)
I see Ritter has made the same identification of Chaghan-Nor (II. 141).
NOTE 4. - The following are the best results I can arrive at in the
identification of these five cranes.
1. Radde mentions as a rare crane in South Siberia Grus monachus, called
by the Buraits Kara Togorue, 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.)
2. Grus leucogeranus (?) whose chief habitat is Siberia, but which
sometimes comes as far south as the Punjab. It is the largest of the
genus, snowy white, with red face and beak; the ten largest quills are
black, but this barely shows as a narrow black line when the wings are
closed. The resplendent golden eyes on the wings remain unaccounted for;
no naturalist whom I have consulted has any knowledge of a crane or
crane-like bird with such decorations.
