. Bird-nesting in north-west Canada . ^ steps to the cabin which was a mile and a halfaway, and changed my clothes. I took as many eggs as Icould cany with me, intending to return later for the rest. The little brown crane breeds throughout Manitoba andaround most of the lakes and larger sloughs. It breeds atCrescent Lake, Oak Lake, Shoal Lake, and amongst the nu-merous small lakes at the south end of Lake Manitoba. It isalso common at Big Grass Marsh which is twenty miles inlength and five miles wide, and is situated west of the southernend of Lake Manitoba. This great swamp swarms with birdl


. Bird-nesting in north-west Canada . ^ steps to the cabin which was a mile and a halfaway, and changed my clothes. I took as many eggs as Icould cany with me, intending to return later for the rest. The little brown crane breeds throughout Manitoba andaround most of the lakes and larger sloughs. It breeds atCrescent Lake, Oak Lake, Shoal Lake, and amongst the nu-merous small lakes at the south end of Lake Manitoba. It isalso common at Big Grass Marsh which is twenty miles inlength and five miles wide, and is situated west of the southernend of Lake Manitoba. This great swamp swarms with birdlife, but it is not safe to enter it without a compass, as therushes and wild rice grow so high it is an easy matter to getlost in this extensive swamp, and it can only be explored by. LrTrTE* BROWN CRANE & NEST.


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