trary I repeat that, as specimens are 

 not forthcoming to prove records, 

 this bird is of very rare occurrence in 

 the province. In explanation I may 

 state, however, that I find many 

 sportsmen, who should know better, 

 regularly call the white-fronted goose 

 the Brant, and this accounts for their 

 claims that the Brant is numerous in 

 some localities. The only record I 

 am able to authentically locate is the 

 specimen in my collection, which was 

 taken by an Indian at Oak Lake in 

 the spring of 1889, and being recog- 

 nized as a, rarity, was mounted by 

 himself and subsequently secured by 

 the late Geo. Grieve, from whom I se- 



Grus Canadensis 

 Little Brown Crane. 



cured it in April, =1901. Because of 

 similarity in size it might in the dis- 

 tance be confused with Hutchin's 

 goose, but as the Brant is chiefly a 

 bird of the sea coast it is unlikely 

 that it will ever become more than an 

 accidental visitor to us. 



GRUS CANADENSIS. 



Little Brown Crane. 



"On May 6, 1898, a man came into 

 my store at Portage la Prairie and 

 asked me if I wished to purchase a 

 wild turkey. I was for a time puzzled 



to know whether he desired to sell a 

 turkey vulture or a crane, as both 

 these birds are frequently called wild 

 turkeys in this country. I instructed 

 him to bring the bird in until I could 

 examine it, and I was much interested 

 to find he had brougbt a little brown 

 crane. He informed me that he had 

 secured it on the preceding day a few 

 miles northwest of town out of a flock 

 of five of the same sized birds. The 

 bird proved, on examination, to be. a 

 mature male brown crane and so far 



Grus Mexicana 

 Sand Hill Criane. 



as I was able to learn was the first 

 and only specimen reported for Mani- 

 toba and I did not hear of any further 

 records until about the beginning of 

 October, 1903, when a gentleman 

 brought in what proved to be a second 

 specimen. This bird was alive and 

 had been caught by a single toe in 

 a trap on his farm near Morris, Man., 

 directly south of "Winnipeg. He stat- 

 ed that there was a large flock of 

 them, but could not say whether or 

 not they were all the same size. As 

 the immature of this species and of G. 

 Mexicana, the sandhill crane, are 



