278 GRUIDjE : 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 1/92, 

 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. 



