NORTH AMERICAN RAILS AND THEIR ALLIES. 5 



Plain, Alta. (Stansell). At the present time the species has proba- 

 bly ceased to breed anywhere in the United States or Manitoba, and 

 the few remaining individuals — for the species is almost extinct — 

 spend the summer in southern Mackenzie and the northern parts of 

 Alberta and Saskatchewan. 



Fig. 1.— Whooping crane (Grus americana). 



Winter range. — -The winter range is rather restricted, extending 

 from southern Louisiana (Audubon), along the coast of Texas to 

 northern Tamaulipas (Nelson), La Barca, Jalisco (Goldman), and 

 Silao, Guanajuato (Nelson). Formerly the species ranged in winter 

 eastward to western Florida (Nuttall). 



