Our Vanishing Wild Life eBook

William Temple Hornaday
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 632 pages of information about Our Vanishing Wild Life.

Our Vanishing Wild Life eBook

William Temple Hornaday
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 632 pages of information about Our Vanishing Wild Life.

OKLAHOMA: 

Records for birds insufficient.  Mammals:  bison, elk, antelope, mule deer, puma, black bear.

OREGON: 

The only species known to have been wholly exterminated during recent times is the California condor and the bison, both of which were rare stragglers into Oregon; but a number of species are now close to extinction.

PENNSYLVANIA: 

Heath hen, pigeon, parrakeet, Labrador duck; bison, elk, moose, puma, gray wolf, Canada lynx, wolverine, beaver.—­(Witmer Stone, Dr. C.B.  Penrose and Arthur Chapman.)

RHODE ISLAND: 

Heath hen, passenger pigeon, wild turkey, least tern, eastern willet, Eskimo curlew, marbled godwit, long-billed curlew.—­(Harry S. Hathaway); puma, black bear, gray wolf, beaver, otter, wolverine.

SOUTH CAROLINA: 

Ivory-billed woodpecker, Carolina parrakeet; bison, elk, puma, gray wolf.—­(James H. Rice, Jr.)

SOUTH DAKOTA: 

Whooping crane, trumpeter swan, pigeon, long-billed curlew; bison, elk, mule deer, mountain sheep.

TENNESSEE: 

Records insufficient.

TEXAS: 

Wild turkey, passenger pigeon, ivory-billed woodpecker, flamingo, roseate spoonbill, American egret, whooping crane, wood-duck; bison, elk, mountain sheep, antelope, “a small, dark deer that lived 40 years ago.” (Capt.  M.B.  Davis.)

UTAH: 

Records insufficient.

VIRGINIA: 

Records insufficient.

WASHINGTON: 

Very few species have become totally extinct, but a number are on the verge, and will be named in the next state schedule.

WEST VIRGINIA: 

Pigeon, parrakeet; bison, elk, beaver, puma, gray wolf.

WISCONSIN: 

Whooping crane, passenger pigeon, American egret, wild turkey, Carolina parrakeet; bison, moose, elk, woodland caribou, puma, wolverine.

WYOMING: 

Whooping crane, trumpeter swan, wood-duck; mountain goat.

CANADA

ALBERTA: 

Passenger pigeon, whooping crane; bison.

BRITISH COLUMBIA: 

A. Bryan Williams reports:  “Do not know of any birds having become extinct.”

MANITOBA: 

Pigeon; bison, antelope, gray wolf.

NEW BRUNSWICK: 

Pigeon.

NOVA SCOTIA: 

Labrador duck, Eskimo curlew, passenger pigeon.

ONTARIO: 

Wild turkey, pigeon, Eskimo curlew.

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: 

(Reported by E.T.  Carbonell):  Eskimo curlew, horned grebe, ring-billed gull, Caspian tern, passenger pigeon, Wilson’s petrel, wood-duck, Barrow’s golden-eye, whistling swan, American eider, white-fronted goose, purple sandpiper, Canada grouse, long-eared owl, screech owl, black-throated bunting, pine warbler, red-necked grebe, purple martin and catbird; beaver, black fox, silver gray fox, marten and black bear.

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