Numidian crane, demoiselle crane or dancing bird. Anthropoides virgo. Goldsmith "says the Numidian Crane is vulgarly called by our sailors the Buffoon Bird, and by the French, the Demoiselle or Lady. The French, who are skilled in the art of elegant gesticulation, consider all its motions as ladylike and graceful. Our English sailors, however, who have not entered so deeply into the dancing art, think that the bird while thus in motion cuts buts a very ridiculous figure.". Handcoloured copperplate engraving from "The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine; or, Complete Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature" (1798~1802) published by Harrison, London.