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3.75 by 2.65. Some eggs are blotched irregularly over the surface, while others are 

 marked at the smaller or greater end. Two eggs in my collection from Northern 

 Iowa measure 3.89x2.52, 4.03x2.55, respectively. 





204. WHOOPING CRANE. 



205. LITTLE BROWN CRANE. Grus canadensis (Linn.) 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. 



The Little Brown Crane, which is almost exactly like the next species, but 

 smaller, is abundant in Arctic America. I mounted a specimen of this bird which 

 was taken in the spring of 1884 from a flock of seven birds near Springfield, Ohio. 

 It is a rare migrant in the state. Specimens of the bird and its eggs have been taken 

 In various parts of Alaska. Common on the Island of St. Michael's and at the mouth 

 of the Yukon. Eggs were obtained by Mr. Ball, on the Yukon river, June 17th. They 

 were laid in a depression of the sandy beach. This species is common in the 

 marshes of Norton Sound, where their nests are built on the dry knolls, and the eggs 

 are laid before the end of May. Throughout most parts of Manitoba, the Little 

 Brown Crane is a common summer resident. Eggs have been obtained on the Lower 

 Anderson river, in Franklin Bay, and in Liverpool Bay on the Arctic coast. Nelson 

 states that the Little Brown Crane is a summer resident upon St. Mathew's and St. 

 Lawrence Islands, and were found nesting by Nordenskjold in considerable numbers 

 at Seniavine Strait, south of Bering Strait on the Siberian coast, July 28. Eggs 

 containing small embryos were secured May 27, but they are generally deposited 



