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A YOUNG WHOOPING CRANE 



Owing to continuous persecution by gunners, the Whooping Crane has become one of the rarest birds in North 



America. This photograph was made by Miss E. Margaret Estlin, at Kerrobert, Saskatchewan, in the 



summer of igi3. Adult birds were seen by her in this neighborhood as late as the autumn of ig2i 



