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.

MISSOURI: 

The birds threatened with extermination are the American woodcock, wood-duck, snowy egret, pinnated grouse, wild turkey, ruffed grouse, golden eagle, bald eagle, pileated woodpecker.

MONTANA: 

Blue grouse.—­(Henry Avare, Helena.)

Sage grouse, prairie and Columbian sharp-tailed grouse, trumpeter swan, Canada goose, in fact, most of the water-fowl.  The sickle-billed curlew, of which there were many a few years ago, is becoming scarce.  There are no more golden or black-bellied plover in these parts.—­(Harry P. Stanford, Kalispell.)

Curlew, Franklin grouse (fool hen) and sage grouse.—­W.R.  Felton, Miles
City.

Sage grouse.—­(L.A.  Huffman, Miles City.)

Ptarmigan, wood-duck, sharp-tailed grouse, sage grouse, fool hen and plover.  All game birds are becoming scarce as the country becomes settled and they are confined to uninhabited regions.—­(Prof.  M.J.  Elrod, Missoula.)

NEBRASKA: 

Grouse, prairie chicken and quail.—­(H.N.  Miller, Lincoln.)

Whistling swan.—­(Dr. S.G.  Towne, Omaha.)

NEW HAMPSHIRE: 

Wood-duck and upland plover.

NEW YORK: 

Quail, woodcock, upland plover, golden plover, black-bellied plover, willet, dowitcher, red-breasted sandpiper, long-billed curlew, wood-duck, purple martin, redheaded woodpecker, mourning dove; gray squirrel, otter.

NEW JERSEY: 

Ruffed grouse, teal, canvasback, red-head duck, widgeon, and all species of shore birds, the most noticeable being black-bellied plover, dowitcher, golden plover, killdeer, sickle-bill curlew, upland plover and English snipe; also the mourning dove.—­(James M. Stratton and Ernest Napier, Trenton.)

Upland plover, apparently killdeer, egret, wood-duck, woodcock, and probably others.—­(B.S.  Bowdish, Demarest.)

NORTH CAROLINA: 

Forster’s tern, oystercatcher, egret and snowy egret.—­(T.  Gilbert
Pearson, Sec.  Nat.  Asso.  Audubon Societies.)

Ruffed grouse rapidly disappearing; bobwhite becoming scarce.—­(E.L. 
Ewbank, Hendersonville.)

Perhaps American and snowy egret.  If long-billed curlew is not extinct, it seems due to become so.  No definite, reliable record of it later than 1885.—­(H.H.  Brimley, Raleigh.)

NORTH DAKOTA: 

Wood-duck, prairie hen, upland plover, sharp-tailed grouse, canvas-back, pinnated and ruffed grouse, double-crested cormorant, blue heron, long-billed curlew, whooping crane and white pelican.—­(W.B.  Bell, Agricultural College.)

Upland plover, marbled godwit, Baird’s sparrow, chestnut-collared longspur.—­(Alfred Eastgate, Tolna.)

OHIO: 

White heron, pileated woodpecker (if not already extinct).  White heron reported a number of times last year; occurrences in Sandusky, Huron, Ashtabula and several other counties during 1911.  These birds would doubtless rapidly recruit under a proper federal law.—­(Paul North, Cleveland.)

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