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THE WILSON BULLETIN— September, 1922 
At all times, when near the nests, the parent birds keep at 
a safe distance of several hundred yards and were very hard to 
approach under any circumstances. 
The female kept up a constant call to her young while any- 
one was near the nest, and this peculiar call of the Sandhill 
Crane can be heard for miles. 
No nest containing more than two eggs or young were found. 
Residents of the valley told me of the peculiar habit of the 
birds that when the young reached a certain stage they become 
Eggs of the Sandhill Crane 
very quarrelsome, to such an extent that their fights result in 
the death of one or the other of the young and at this time the 
parent birds separate the young, the male taking charge of one 
and the female the other, and that thereafter they are not found 
