278 GRUID^E I CRANES. 



brown, little darker than the general plumage ; shafts of primaries 

 white. Wing about 22.00 ; tail, 9.00 ; tarsus, 9.50-10.00 ; bill 

 along culmen 5.00-6.00 ; middle toe 3.50-4.00. 



Our remarks upon the preceeding species have 

 anticipated some points in the New England history of 

 the present one. We have to note further that in 1792, 

 Jeremy Belknap gives the Sandhill Crane as a bird 

 of New Hampshire (Hist. N. H., iii, 1792, p. 169) ; and 

 that Samuel Williams, about the same time, states that 

 the species was one of the commonest of the " water 

 fowl " of Vermont (Hist. Vt., 1794, p. 119). 



No modern instance of this species or the preceding 

 appearing in New England is known to us. 



