CALIFORNIA: 

Swan, white heron, bronze ibis.  California valley quail are getting very scarce, and unless adequate protection is afforded them shortly, they will be found hereafter only in remote districts.  Ducks also are decreasing rapidly.—­(H.W.  Keller, Los Angeles.)

Sage grouse and Columbian sharp-tailed grouse are so nearly extinct that it may practically be said that they are extinct.  Among species likely to be exterminated in the near future are the wood-duck and band-tailed pigeon.—­(W.P.  Taylor, Berkeley.)

COLORADO: 

Sage grouse and sharp-tailed grouse; nearly all the shore birds.

CONNECTICUT: 

All the shore birds; quail, purple martin.

DELAWARE: 

Wood duck, upland plover, least tern, Wilson tern, roseate tern, black skimmer, oystercatcher, and numerous other littoral species.  Pileated woodpeckers, bald eagles and all the ducks are much more rare than formerly.  Swan are about gone, geese scarce.  The list of ducks, geese and shore-birds, as well as of terns and gulls that are nearing extinction is appalling.—­(C.J.  Pennock, Wilmington.)

Wood-duck, woodcock, turtle dove and bob-white.—­(A.R.  Spaid,
Wilmington.)

FLORIDA: 

Limpkin, ivory-billed woodpecker, wild turkey (?).

GEORGIA: 

Ruffed grouse, wild turkey.

IDAHO: 

Harlequin duck, mountain plover, dusky grouse, Columbian sharp-tailed grouse, sage grouse.  Elk, goats and grizzly bears are becoming very scarce.  Of the smaller animals I have not seen a fisher for years, and marten are hardly to be found.  The same is true of other species.—­(Dr. Charles S. Moody, Sand Point.)

ILLINOIS: 

Pinnated grouse, except where rigidly protected.  In Vermillion County, by long and persistent protection Harvey J. Sconce has bred back upon his farm about 400 of these birds.

INDIANA: 

Pileated woodpecker, woodcock, ruffed grouse, pigeon hawk, duck hawk.—­(Amos W. Butler, Indianapolis.)

In northern and northwestern Indiana, a perpetual close season and rigid protection have enabled the almost-extinct pinnated grouse to breed up to a total number now estimated by Game Commissioner Miles and his wardens at 10,000 birds.  This is a gratifying illustration of what can be done in bringing back an almost-vanished species.  The good example of Indiana should be followed by every state that still possesses a remnant of prairie-chickens, or other grouse.

IOWA: 

Pinnated grouse, wood-duck.  Notwithstanding an invasion of Jasper County, Iowa, in the winter of 1911-12 by hundreds of pinnated grouse, such as had not been known in 20 years, this gives no ground to hope that the future of the species is worth a moment’s purchase.  The winter migration came from the Dakotas, and was believed to be due to the extra severe winter, and the scarcity of food.  Commenting on this unprecedented occurrence, J.L.  Sloanaker in the “Wilson Bulletin” No. 78, says: