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Grus antigone
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Etymology
From mul la grus crane + mul la Antigonē, from mul grc Ἀντιγόνη daughter of Oedipus in Greek legend.
Proper noun
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species family Gruidae sarus crane, now Antigone antigone species
1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:
Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra species), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala species), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.
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