. Distribution and migration of North American rails and their allies . 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 prob
. Distribution and migration of North American rails and their allies . 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. 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, 182
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