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Title: Distribution and migration of North American rails and their allies
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Cooke, Wells Woodbridge, 1858-1916
Subjects: Rails (Birds) Birds Migration
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Parry). The summer home therefore is a parallelogram,2,500 miles from east to west and one-third as much from north tosouth. Winter range.—Compared with the above outlined breeding range,the little brown crane occupies a comparatively small area during thewinter season, extending from San Patricio, Tex. (Sennett), to RioVerde, San Luis Potosi (Allen), Silao, Guanajuato (Nelson), and LaBarca, Jalisco (Nelson and Goldman). A specimen was taken atSan 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 theregion of the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains lying imnie-diatelv between the summer and the winter homes, but even here the 8 BULLETIN 128, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. records are few and far between, owing to the difficulty of dis-tinguishing this species from the more common sandhill crane. Thenormal migration range may be said to extend east to Manitoba and
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Fig. 2.—Little brown crane (Grus canadensis). Iowa, beyond which wanderers have been recorded from TroutLake, Keewatin (Murray); near Johnstown, Wis. (Kumlien andHollister); Clark County, Mo. (Widmann); Alexander, Prince Edward NOETH AMERICAN RAILS AND THEIR ALLIES. 9 Island, September 22, 1905 (Moore); Natick Hill, R. I., October 9,1889 (Howe and Sturtevant); and near Mount Pleasant, S. C,October 18, 1890 (Wayne). The species is rare on the Pacific slope,but has been noted at Chilliwack, B. C. (Brooks); Roy, Wash.(Thayer); Fort Klamath, Oreg. (Merrill); Ash Meadows, Nev.(Fisher); and Los Angeles, Cal. (Grinnell). Spring migration.—The arrival of the species in spring has beennoted in Clark County, Mo., April 10, 1896 (Widmann); Whiting,Iowa, April 6, 1886 (Anderson); near Johnstown, Wis., April 4, 1894(Kumlien and Hollister); Portage la Prairie, Man., May 5, 1898(Atkinson); Carlton House, Sask., April 28, 1827 (Richardson);Indian Head, Sask., April 28, 1910 (Lang); Fort Vermilion

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