CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS 1 35 



A set of four eggs taken at Swamp Lake, Manitoba, on June 

 6th, 1893, by Mr. Raine. 



Oedee PALUDICOL^. Ceanes. Rails, &c. 

 Family XVII. GRUID^ffi. Cranes. 

 LXXIV. GRUS Pallas. 1766. 

 204. Whooping Crane. 



Grus americana (Linn.) Vieill. 1817. 



Thirty years ago this species was found in all the large marshes 

 from the Red River to the Rocky Mountains, but with the build- 

 ing of the Canadian Pacific Railway and increased population, it 

 is gradually retiring northward. A few still breed in eastern 

 Assiniboia, but most pass northward into the Saskatchewan and 

 Athabasca districts and further north. A pair was found, likely 

 breeding, on Twelve-mile Lake, Wood Mountain, June 6th, 1895. 

 Richardson wrote many years ago that this bird frequented all 

 parts of the Northwest traversed by him, and Macfarlane writes 

 that though he never found any nests he observed flocks both in 

 spring and fall flying over Fort Anderson near the Arctic Sea. 

 The only record of the occurrence of this species in Ontario I 

 find in Mcllwraith at page 116. He says that a single specimen 

 was taken in the township of Camden in Addington County on 

 the 27th September, 1 871, by Mr. Wesley Potter. 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



A fine pair presented by Mr. Thomas McKay of Red Deer 

 Hill, near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, taken in the spring of 

 1893. One egg collected at Oak Lake, Manitoba, May 21st, 1893. 



-205. Little Brown Crane. " Sandhill Crane." 



Grus canadejisis (Linn.) Temm. i 820. 



One obtained near Igloolik, in Greenland, June 20th, 1869. {Arct. 

 Man.) Owing possibly to a misapprehension this species has been 

 overlooked in Manitoba and hence Seton-Thompson only includes 

 Grus mexicana in his catalogue of Manitoba birds. Sir John 

 Richardson on the other hand does not include Grus mexicana in 

 his Fauna Boreali Americana, but says that some individuals are 



