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1902, from Yarmouth, N.S. Mr. Kennard learned that it had been 

 killed by Mr. Howard Smith, who wrote Mr. Kennard that two 

 other specimens had been captured that spring in Yarmouth co., 

 Nova Scotia. 



One taken on Sable island, N.S., April 13th, 1904. {Jas. Boutelier.) 

 A young bird was taken near Toronto, Ont., by Mr. John Maughan. 

 It is in the provincial museum at Toronto. (/. H. Fleming.) 



Order PALUDICOL.^. Cranes, Rails, &c. 



Family XVII. GRUID^. Crakes. 

 LXXX. GRUS Pallas. 1766. 

 204. Whooping Crane. 



Gnis amciicana (Linn.) Vieill. 1817. 



Thirty years ago this species was found in all the large marshes 

 from the Red river to the Rocky mountains, but with the building 

 of the Canadian Pacific Railway and increased population, it is 

 gradually retiring northward. A few still breed in Saskatchewan, 

 but most pass northward into the Athabasca district and further 

 north. A pair was found, likely breeding, on Twelve-mile lake, 

 Wood mountain, June 6th, 1895. Richardson wrote many years 

 ago that this bird frequented all parts of the Northwest traversed 

 by him, and Macfarlane writes that though he never found any nests 

 he observed flocks both in spring and fall flying over Fort Anderson 

 near the Arctic sea. The only record Mcllwraith gives of the occur- 

 rence of this species in Ontario is at page 116 of his Birds of Ontario. 

 He says that a single specimen was taken in the township of Camden 

 in Addington co. on the 27th September, 1871, by Mr. Wesley 

 Potter. 



Hearne says this bird visits Hudson bay in the spring though not 

 in great numbers. (Preble.) A pair was seen b}^ Mr. Handy at 

 Elmsdale, Muskoka, Ont., in 1895. He was attracted by their loud 

 cries and watched them for some time. (/. H. Fleming.) Rather 

 uncommon at Aweme, Man. Arrives about April 15th and passes 

 south about the first week in October. (Criddle.) A number 

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