ALECTORIDES— GRUIDAE— GRUS CANADENSIS. 



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Botaurus minor, CouES, Key, 1872, 2G9.— Jf7., Birds Nortbwest, 1874, 523.— Yarrow 

 Rep. Oni. Specs., 1871, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 3G.— Yarrow & Henshaw^ 

 Rep. Oru. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 30. 



Not uncommon in Utah. Two specimens secured in Southern Utah. 

 Not found by the expedition farther to the south. 



Order ALECTORIDES: Cranes & Rails. 



Fam. GRUIDAE: Cranes. 



GRUS CANADENSIS (Liun.). 



Brown Crane; Sandhill Crane. 



Ardea canadensis, Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 176G, 234. 



Orus canadensis, Bd., Stans. Rep. Exp. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 319.— Woodh., Sit- 

 greave's Exp. Zuul & Col. Riv., 1854, 96.— Bd., P. R. R. Rep., Beckwith's 

 Route, X, 1859, 14.— Newb., P. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 97.— Bd., Ives' Col. 

 Exped., 1857-58, pt. iv, G.—Id., Birds N. A., 1858, 655.— 7rf., U. S. & Mex. 

 Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 24.— Henry, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1859, 108 (New Mexico).— Coop. & Suckl., P. R. R. Rep., xii. pt. ii, 

 1860, 227.— Hayd., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, xii, 1862, 173.— Coues, Proc! 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 95 (Colorado and Gila Rivers).— Allen, Bui. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., 1872, 182.— Coues, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 271.— Snow^ 

 Birds Kan., 1872, 13.— Aiken, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1872, 209 (Colo- 

 rado, common in migration).— Merriam, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872 

 702.— Yarrow & Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped.' 

 1874, 30.— Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 146 — 

 Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., June, 1874, 37.— Coues, Birds' North- 

 west, 1874, 532, 



Grusfratercuhis, Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 656 (New Mexico) Kennerly, P. R. R. Rep., 



Whipple's Route, x, 1859, 33 (Albuquerque, N. Mex.). 



First seen at Fish Springs, Utah, in August, 1872, by Dr. H. C. Yar- 

 row. Companies of two or three were afterward observed on the plains 

 later in the season. 



A few seen in the valleys along the streams of Arizona. It is fond of 

 frequenting the old stubble fields in the vicinity of settlements. 



