WHOOPING CRANE. 
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turning over stones and pebbles from side to side in search 
of various marine worms and insects. The young feed also 
upon shrimps and different kinds of small shell-fish, particu- 
larly minute mussels which are occasionally cast up by the 
tides. According to Catesby, this habit, of turning over 
stones in quest of insects is retained by the species even 
when subjected to domestication. 
The Turnstone is a common spring and autumn migrant through- 
out this Eastern region, but near the Atlantic is found only on the 
sea-shore. It makes its nest in the Arctic regions, from Hudson 
ay northward, and during the winter ranges throughout South 
America to the Straits of Magellan. 
The food of these birds is the usual shore-bird diet; but they 
nave been known to thrive upon boiled rice and bread soaked in 
milk. They make interesting pets, as they are gentle and confid- 
ng, and are readily reconciled to confinement. 
WHOOPING CRANE. 
GREAT WHITE CRANE. 
GruS AMERICANA. 
plumage white; outer wing-feathers, or primaries, 
a'”! colored orange red, the 
P^^mefe^f ' graUfu! 
Length ovc ""feef ^ 
hel'^Tm-,?! ^ margin of a swamp ; made of 
A>p 3' ' Srass and placed on high platform of sedges. 
brown ■ ,'^°arse, bluish ash sometimes tinged with 
n , marked with pale brown ; 3.80 X 2.60. 
the Crane, the largest of all the feathered tribes in 
marsb!f dwelling amidst 
season • desolate swamps, according to the 
from th^- ''' America, 
the™ ntV r u it retires to pass 
the North’ A habitable regions and fur countries of 
of the TT '• birds hibernate in the warmer parts 
nion, and some have been known to linger through 
