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common inland. It appears to penetrate the interior of the 

 state by following up the water ways even to the foot of the 

 White Mountains. At Dublin I^ake, Mr. G. H. Thayer writes 

 me that it is an irregular visitant, not known to breed. In the 

 Merrimack valley, Mr. C. F. Goodhue has found it rarely near 

 Webster, and still farther up, it has been recorded from New- 

 found I^ake in summer (Howe, :oi, p. 27). A number appear 

 to work up the Saco valley through Maine, and thus reach the 

 White Mountain region. At Chocorua, Frank Bolles ('93a, 

 pp. 36 & 128) states that a few are found late in summer and 

 instances a flock of ten which remained for two or three days in 

 the neighborhood, one August. At Intervale, I have seen and 

 heard occasional birds on the Saco meadows in the months of 

 June, July and August and have attributed to these birds the 

 two or three large stick nests which I have found nearly every 

 year high up in some large white maples by the water's edge, 

 though doubtless the young, if such there had been, were al- 

 ready grown by the time I arrived (late June). In the Connec- 

 ticut valley, neither Mr. W. M. Buswell of Charlestown, nor 

 Mr. F. B. Spaulding, of Lancaster, have met with the bird, 

 though doubtless a few do penetrate so far up perhaps as the 

 latter station, and Mr. R. H. Howe, Junior (102, p. n) gives 

 it as occurring in the Connecticut valley at Windsor, Vt., and at 

 St. Johnsbury farther north in that state. Certain it is, how- 

 ever, that over the greater part of central, western, and north- 

 ern New Hampshire it is absent. 

 Dates : April to October. 



62. Grus inexicana (Mull.). SANDHILL CRANE. 

 This bird is supposed to have occurred as a migrant in New 

 England at the time of the first settlement of the country. Sev- 

 eral of the early writers on this region mention what seem to 

 have been cranes, and among them Belknap (1792, III, p. 169) 

 lists the " Crane, Ardea canadensis ," as of the birds occurring 

 in New Hampshire. The only actual record for the state ap- 

 pears to be Wakefield at I^ovell's Pond, where Mr. William 

 Brewster ( : 01) states that he is informed by Mr. Ned Dearborn, 

 a specimen was obtained in 1896 or 1897. Mr. Dearborn first 



