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Show Vanishing Cram WHOOPING CRAXE This Illustration of a Whooping Whoop-ing Crane was supposed to accompany ac-company some remarks on that fast disappearing species of American bird life that appeared ap-peared in this column recently. Unfortunately the picture, like most of the originals, went astray. Since that article appeared, ap-peared, two national magaslnes published stories about this magnlllrenl bird, whose whoop Is becoming fainter and fainter every day. One article estimated esti-mated that only a hundred specimens spec-imens were still alive and whooping. The other article placed the number at 29. Says the Fish and Wildlife service of the department of the Interior, which Is conducting a survey of these, the tallest (man-slie) and most beautiful of American birds; "fewer than 40" have been counted. They are In the coast region of southern Louisiana Louis-iana and Texas. |