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Hills.” But the advent of man and railroads spelled the 
destruction of so fine and conspicuous a bird, and its nest 
has not been found for a number of years. A few birds are 
occasionally seen in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and only 
in the region between the Quill Lakes and Last Mountain 
Lake in Saskatchewan do they appear to exist or breed in 
any numbers. The little brown crane is often confused 
with the sandhill crane, which is the well-known resident 
brown crane of the prairies; the little brown crane, on the 
other hand, is only a migrant within civilization and nests 
in the far north. The sandhill crane is a rare migrant in 
Ontario, and it is not common in British Columbia. But 
in the Prairie Provinces and to the north the sandhill cranes 
are fairly common, and one’s eyes may still be gladdened 
by the long lines of these birds sailing through the sky. It 
has been the custom to shoot these birds for food and to 
regard them in certain localities as injurious to grain crops. 
SHORE-BIRDS, OR WADERS 
The shore-birds, or waders, have a special interest to 
Canadians, as these birds, which migrate unusually long 
distances, in most cases breed entirely and, in other cases, 
principally within our territories, where suitable breeding- 
grounds exist on a large scale. Large numbers breed in or 
near Arctic Canada, and migrate to Central and South 
America. The knot, one of the sandpipers found on our 
Atlantic coast during the migration, breeds on the most 
northern islands of the Arctic, such as Victoria and Ellesmere 
Islands, and, after migration along the Atlantic coast, win- 
ters in Patagonia, a distance of over 9,000 miles separating 
its summer and winter abodes. 
Formerly shore-birds of all kinds occurred on our coasts 
and inland in countless numbers, but now some have prac- 
tically disappeared, and even the species that have man- 
aged to hold their own are far from abundant. No class of 
