XOETH AMEBICAN EAILS AXD THEIR ALLIES. 



Fall migration. 



Place. 



Num- 

 ber of 

 years' 

 records. 



Average 

 date of 

 fall ar- 

 rival. 



Earliest date 



of fall 



arrival. 





3 

 6 



Sept. 8 

 Oct. 6 



Sept. 8,1891 

 Sept. 19, 1891 

 Sept. 4, 1902 













Aug. 26,1886 









Oct. 8, 1888 









Place. 



Num- I Average 

 ber of date of 

 years' : the last 

 records, one seen. 



Latest date 

 of the last 

 one seen. 



Aweme, Man 



Harrison, S. Dak 



Eastern Nebraska 



Onaga, Kans 



Heron Lake, Minn 



Decatur County, Iowa. 

 Bonham, Tex/. 



3 Oct. 10 



2 Oct. 29 



3 Oct. 26 



3 Nov. 19 



Oct. 

 Nov. 

 Nov. 

 Oct. 

 Nov. 

 Nov. 



12, 1904 

 1, 1891 

 12, 1890 

 18, 1907 

 13, 1885 

 12, 1871 



Nov. 22, 1888 



LITTLE BROWN CRANE. Grus canadensis (Linnaeus). 



Range. — North America from the Arctic islands to central Mexico. 



Breeding range. — The little brown crane is the northern represen- 

 tative of the common sandhill crane of the United States, and breeds 

 north to Ponds Bay, Baffin Land, latitude 73° (McClintock), Bay of 

 Mercy, Banks Land, latitude 74° (Armstrong), and Colville River, 

 Alaska, latitude 71° (Murdock); and ranges north in migration to 

 Point Barrow (Stone). It breeds west to Kotzebue Sound, Alaska 

 (Grinnell), Semiavine Strait, Siberia (Nordenskjold), Lawrence and 

 Matthew Islands, Alaska (Nelson) ; and migrates still farther west to 

 the Near Islands, Alaska (Turner). The breeding range extends 

 south to the Nushagak River, Alaska (McKay), Big Island, Macken- 

 zie (Coues), and near Cape Eskimo, Keewatin (Preble); and east to 

 Southampton Island, Keewatin (Eifrig), and Igloolik, MelviUe 

 Peninsula (Parry). The summer home therefore is a parallelogram, 

 2,500 miles from east to west and one-third as much from north to 

 south. 



'Winter range. — Compared with the above outlined breeding range, 

 the little brown crane occupies a comparatively small area during the 

 winter season, extending from San Patricio, Tex. (Sennett), to Rio 

 Verde, San Luis Potosi (Allen), Silao, Guanajuato (Nelson), and La 

 Barca, Jalisco (Nelson and Goldman). A specimen was taken at 

 San Rafael Mission near San Francisco, Cal., in January (Buturlin), 

 but this probably was an accidental occurrence. 



Migration range. — The little brown crane is a migrant in the 

 region of the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains lying imnie- 

 diatelv between the summer and the winter homes, but even here the 



