THE OOLOGIST. 



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The Oologist. 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

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FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher, 



ALBION, N. Y. 



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The Sandhill Crane. 



Grus mexicana (Mull). 



This species is but little known to the 

 large majority of bird observers in the 

 United States and next to not at all by 

 1399 persons out of every 1,000 — take 

 them right through from ocean to 

 ocean. The Sandhill Crane is so well 

 known in some sections, more especial- 

 ly west of the Mississippi river, and in 

 the Southern States, that some readers 

 may object to my assertion regarding 



the lack of abundance— but I think I'm 

 right in my opinion. There are prob- 

 ably a million people in America who 

 from poor judgment or no reasoning at 

 all, call the Great Blue Heron the Sand- 

 hill, and others who apply the name lo 

 most any long-legged bird. But these' 

 observers (?) belong to that class whO' 

 call the Flicker a woodcock, a Skunk a 

 polecat and a Porcupine a hedgehog: — 

 their opinion amounts to nothing. 



Once these birds were common where 

 they are not known at the present 

 day. For instance, the Sandhill was 

 well known in my county (Kalamazoo) 

 forty to fifty years ago, yet in nearly 

 thirty years of observance I have not 

 seen a single specimen. Like the Raven 

 it has ceased to visit our county. 



What is the reason for this? It is not 

 because we are too advanced in civili- 

 zation, for if that is the reason, whj 

 should the birds still visit Shiwassee, 

 VanBureu, Berrien and Ingham coun- 

 ties and within a few miles of the state 

 Capital, Lansing,where a nest was found 

 but a few years since. To be sure, civ- 

 ilization aifects all of our birds, and 

 mostly to increase their numbers, par- 

 ticularly with the Swallow species, I 

 sincerely believe, but in the case of the 

 Sanehill Crane, as with many other 

 species, we must find some other^reason 

 than the generally accepted one regard- 

 ing the influences of civilization, to ac- 

 count for the selected lines of migra- 

 tion and for choice of breeding loca- 

 tions. All the way from Northern 

 Michigan, through Indiana, Ohio, Ken- 

 tucky, Tennessee, Georgia and way 

 south in Florida, I have made observa- 

 tions, or received reports from reliable 

 sources, and have arrived at the con- 

 clusion that the Sandhills have exact 

 routes of migration and are very ten- 

 acious of their rights to old nesting 

 haunts; often passing near too, or di- 

 rectly over populous cities on their way 

 to northern breeding grounds. 



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