ORDER PALUDICOL^. 



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Order PALUDICOL^. Cranes, Rails, etc. 



Suborder GRUES. Cranes. 



Family GrRUID.aj. Cranes. 



Genus GRITS Pallas. 

 Grus Pall. Misc. Zool. 1766, 66. Type, Ardea grus Linn. 



204. Grus americana (Linn.). 



Whooping Crane. 



Ardea americana Linn. S. N. ed. 10, L 175H, 142. 

 Grus americana Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XIII. 18 17, 

 557- 



[B 478, C 462, R 582, C 668.] 



Geog. Dist. — Interior of North America, from the Fur Countries 

 to Florida, Texas, and Mexico, and from Ohio to Colorado. For- 

 merly on the Atlantic coast, at least casually, to New England. ' 



205. Grus canadensis (Linn.). 



Little Brown Crane. 



Ardea canadensis Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 141. 

 Grus cajiadensis T'E.MM. Man. I. 1820, p. c. 



[B 480, C 463, R 584, C 669.] 



Geog. Dist. — Arctic and subarctic America, breeding from the 

 Fur Countries and Alaska to the Arctic coast, migrating south in 

 winter into the western United States. 



206. Grus mexicana (Mull.). 



Sandhill Crane. 



Ardea {grus) mexicana Mull. S. N. Suppl. 1776, no. 



Grus mexicana Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XIII. 1817, 561. 



