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Sandhill Crane ( Grus mexicaua) . Mr. Dearborn tells me that he has 
recently purchased a Sandhill Crane of Mr. J. S. Turner, a taxidermist 
at PoicSmouth, New Hampshire, who asserts that the bird was killed at 
Lovell’s Pond, Wakefield, New Hampshire, in either 1896 or 1897, and 
brought to him in the flesh in fresh condition, but he has forgotten the 
name of the man who shot it nor can ne.remember the exact date. Mr. 
Turner has lived in Portsmouth many yeaTs and bears an excellent local 
reputation for reliability of statement. The specimen is mounted and 
was still encased in winding cotton, with the neck-wire projecting uncut 
through the top of the head, when Mr. Dearborn first saw it. With the 
Bell’s Vireo above mentioned it is now preserved in the collection of the 
State Agricultural College at Durham. There are, as far as I can ascer- 
tain, no previous records of the occurrence of the Sandhill Crane in New 
Hampshire during the past century, although Belknap, writing in 1792 
(Hist. N. H., Ill, 1792, p. 169) mentions it without comment in his list of 
the birds of that State. — William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 
Auk, XVIII, July.. 1901, p. *7Y, 
