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.

ARKANSAS: 

Passenger pigeon, Carolina parrakeet, whooping crane; bison, elk, beaver.

CALIFORNIA: 

No birds totally extinct, but several nearly so; grizzly bear (?), elephant seal.

COLORADO: 

Carolina parrakeet, whooping crane; bison.

CONNECTICUT: 

Passenger pigeon, Eskimo curlew, great auk, Labrador duck, upland plover, heath hen, wild turkey; puma, gray wolf, Canada lynx, black bear, elk.

DELAWARE: 

Wild turkey, ruffed grouse, passenger pigeon, heath hen, dickcissel, whooping crane, Carolina parrakeet; white-tailed deer, black bear, gray wolf, beaver, Canada lynx, puma.

FLORIDA: 

Flamingo, roseate spoonbill, scarlet ibis, Carolina parrakeet, passenger pigeon.

GEORGIA: 

Passenger pigeon, Carolina parrakeet, whooping crane, trumpeter swan; bison, elk, beaver, gray wolf, puma.—­(Last 3, Craig D. Arnold.)

IDAHO: 

Wood duck, long-billed curlew, whooping crane; bison.—­(Dr. C.S.  Moody.)

ILLINOIS: 

Passenger pigeon, whooping crane, Carolina parrakeet, trumpeter swan, snowy egret, Eskimo curlew; bison, elk, white-tailed deer, black bear, puma, Canada lynx.

INDIANA: 

Passenger pigeon, whooping crane, northern raven, wild turkey, ivory-billed woodpecker, Carolina parrakeet, trumpeter swan, snowy egret, Eskimo curlew; bison, elk, white-tailed deer, black bear, Canada lynx, beaver, porcupine.—­(Amos W. Butler.)

IOWA: 

Wild turkey, Eskimo curlew, whooping crane, trumpeter swan, white pelican, passenger pigeon; bison, elk, antelope, white-tailed deer, black bear, puma, Canada lynx, gray wolf, beaver, porcupine.

KANSAS: 

American scaup duck, woodcock, ruffed grouse, wild turkey, pileated woodpecker, parrakeet, white-necked raven, American raven (all Prof.  L.L.  Dyche); golden plover, Eskimo curlew, Hudsonian curlew, wood-duck (C.H.  Smyth and James Howard, Wichita).  Bison, elk, mule deer, white-tailed deer, gray wolf, beaver (?), otter, lynx (?) (L.L.D.)

(Reports as complete and thorough as these for other localities no doubt would show lists equally long for several other states.—­(W.T.H.))

KENTUCKY: 

Passenger pigeon, parrakeet; bison, elk, puma, beaver, gray wolf.

LOUISIANA: 

Passenger pigeon, Carolina parrakeet, Eskimo curlew, flamingo, scarlet ibis, roseate spoonbill; bison, ocelot.

MAINE: 

Great auk, Labrador duck, Eskimo curlew, oystercatcher, wild turkey, heath hen, passenger pigeon; puma, gray wolf, wolverine, caribou.—­(All Arthur H. Norton, Portland.)

MARYLAND: 

Sandhill crane, parrakeet, passenger pigeon; bison, elk, beaver, gray wolf, puma, porcupine.

MASSACHUSETTS: 

Wild turkey, passenger pigeon, Labrador duck, whooping crane, sandhill crane, black-throated bunting, great auk, Eskimo curlew.—­(William Brewster, W.P.  Wharton); Canada lynx, gray wolf, black bear, moose, elk.

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