1'7’8 (‘OURLA NS. 
     
    
   
   
    
     [nun/e.—lnterior of‘ North Ameriea; breeds from Illinois northward ; win- 
     
     ters in the Hull" States. 
     
    

    
     Washington, A. \'.. one reeord. 
     
    

    
     Alst. et‘grasses and 11 eed stalks. 0n the ground in marshy plaees. Ill/{Isa 
     
     two. olive—gray. spotted and b'lotehed with distinet and obseure einnamon-- 
     
     4‘01] x 2'51). 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     brown marking.r . 
     
    

    
     A ‘ather rare speeies east of the Mississippi. “ in flight their long: 
     
     neeks and stiltlike legs are stretched out in a line with the body In 
     
     the full extent. moving strongly with slowly beating wings, but not. 
     
     swiftly. . . . often eireling spiral-like. to a great height, They oeea— 
     
     sionally buneh up, and I have seen them in triangular form; but as :1 
     
     rule they travel in single file, following,r their leader in a wavy line, 
     
     eroaking as they go, like hounds upon a cold trail " (Goss). 
     
    

    
     The L1'r‘r1.1-: Bkowx (‘1:.\Nr:1,!/}-3. (Ir/1.x- rrmnrlmses) breeds from lludsoa 
     
     Bay to Alaska. and winters in Texas and Mexieo. There are but two in- 
     
     stances of‘ its oecurrenee east of the Mississippi illhode Island and Sout.1 
     
     Carolina). It resembles mar/mutt, but is smaller; \V. 1.3230; 8.. 4'1”. 
     
    
   
   
    
     206. GX'uS mexicana. till/771m. Smnntm. ('1:.\_\1‘:: iuowx CRANE. 
     
     ell/.iWhole top of the head to below the eyes eoyered with rough. minutely 
     
     ~: plumage, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     warty. dttll reddish skin thinly grown with short. blaek "hai" 
     
     brownish gray, with more or less silvery gray and bull'y nehraeeous. 101.77 
     
     Similar. but whole head feathered. and with more butt'y whraeeous in the 
     
     plumage. “l ~1U'Ut’745‘lll't; \\',. ".‘l'\-‘3: Tata. 111271: ll” .747 “ \Iiidgw. 1. 
     
     Mun/zi——-l~‘1orida. Georgia. and northward through the Mississippi Valley 
     
     to Manitoba; breeds lot-ally throuulln‘ilt its range; winters in the Gulf States 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
     from Florida to Texas. 
     
    

    
     AMI, of roots. rushes. weed >I;lll\'.\\ ete.. on the, ground in marshy places. 
     
     fit/INS. two. 1Jli\t'~§_rt':l)‘. spotted and lilntehed with distinet and obseure cinna— 
     
     nnnt-brown markings. :HH‘I x 2’40. 
     
    

    
     “ 'l‘hese birds in their habits are similar to the Whooping.r [Crane]. 
     
     but mueh more numerous. Their loud. modulating. sonorous eroak 
     
     announees their present-e. and is often heard during the night as well 
     
     as the day. 
     
    

    
     ‘~ During.r eourtship and the early breeding season their actions and 
     
     anties at times are lndierous in the extreme. bowing and leaping high 
     
     in the air. hopping. skipping, and circlingr about with drooping wings 
     
     and croaking whoop. an almost indescribable danee and din. in whit-h 
     
     the, females (an exception to the rule) join. all working themselves up 
     
     into :1 fever of excitement only equaled by an lndian war daneo, and, 
     
     like, the same, it only stops when the last one is exhausted " ((ioss). 
     
    
   
   
    
     FAMILY ARARHDIE. COURLANS. 
     
    
   
   
    
     (‘ourlans might, be 'alled large, Rails with some of the, habits of 
     
     Herons. Two speeies are known. A run/uss-r-ulnpneeusof South Ameriei‘.