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OUR VANISHING WILD LIFE
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. vS. Bowdish, Demarest.)
North Carolina:
Forster's tern, oystercatcher, egret and snowy egret.—(T. Gilbert Pearson, Sec.
Nat. Asso. Audubon vSocieties.)
Ruflfed 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. Brim- ley, 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.)
Turtle dove, quail, red-bird, wren, hummingbird, wild canary [goldfinch] and blue bird.—(Walter C. Staley, Dayton.)
Oklahoma:
Pinnated grouse.—(J. C. Clark); otter, kit fox, black-footed ferret.—(G. W.
Stevens.)
Oregon:
American egret, snowy egret. —(W. L. Finley, Portland.)
Pennsylvania:
Virginia partridge and woodcock.—(Arthur Chapman.)
Wood-duck, least bittern, phalarope, woodcock, duck hawk and barn swallow. —
(Dr. Chas. B. Penrose.)
Wild turkey; also various transient and straggling water birds. —(Witmer Stone.)
Rhode Island:
Wood-duck, knot, greater yellow-legs, upland plover, golden plover, piping plover,
great horned owl. —(Harry S. Hathaway, South Auburn.)
South Carolina:
Woodduck,abundant6yearsago,nowalmostgone. Wildturkey(abundantup
to 1898) ; woodcock, upland plover, Hudsonian curlew Carolina rail, Virginia rail, clapperrailandcoot. Blackbearvergingonextinction,opossumdwindlingrapidly. (James H. Rice Jr., Summerville.)
South Dakota:
Prairie chicken and quail are most likely to become extinct in the near future.
(W. F. Bancroft, Watertown.)
Texas :
Wild turkey and prairie chickens.—(J. D. Cox, Austin )
Plover, all species; curlew, cardinal, road-runner, woodcock, wood-duck, canvas-
back, cranes, all the herons; wild turkey; quail, all varieties; prairie chicken and Texas guan.—(Capt. M. B. Davis, Waco.)
Curlew, very rare ; plover, very rare ; antelope. (Answer applies to the Panhandle of Texas.—Chas. Goodnight.)
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