CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS 135 
A set of four eggs taken at Swamp Lake, Manitoba, on June 
6th, 1893, by Mr. Raine. 
ORDER PALUDICOLA. CRANES. RAILs, &c, 
Famity XVII. GRUIDAS. Cranes. 
LXXIV. GRUS Pattas. 1766. 
204. Whooping Crane. 
Gris A (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 build- 
ing of the Canadian Pacific Railway and increased population, it 
is gradually retiring northward. A few still breed in eastern 
Assiniboia, but most pass northward into the Saskatchewan and 
Athabasca districts 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 of the occurrence of this species in Ontario I 
find in McIlwraith at page 116. He says that a single specimen 
was taken in the township of Camden in Addington County on 
the 27th September, 1871, by Mr. Wesley Potter. 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
A fine pair presented by Mr. Thomas McKay of Red Deer 
Hill, near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, taken in the spring of 
1893. One egg collected at Oak Lake, Manitoba, May 2iIst, 1893. 
205. Little Brown Crane. “Sandhill Crane.’’ 
Grus canadensis (LINN.) TEMM. 1820. 
One obtained near Igloolik, in Greenland, June 2oth, 1869. (Arcz. 
Man.) Owing possibly toa misapprehension this species has been 
overlooked in Manitoba and hence Seton-Thompson only includes 
Gyrus mexicana in his catalogue of Manitoba birds. Sir John 
Richardson on the other hand does not include Grus mexicana in 
his Hauna Boreali Americana, but says that some individuals are 
