Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
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song-birds are retreating before the English sparrow.--(William Perry
Brown, Glenville.) Wood-duck and wild turkey.--(J.A. Viquesney, Belington.) WISCONSIN: Double-crested cormorant, upland plover, white pelican, long-billed curlew, lesser snow goose, Hudsonian curlew, sandhill crane, golden plover, woodcock, dowitcher and long-billed duck; spruce grouse, knot, prairie sharp-tailed grouse, marbled godwit and bald eagle. All these, formerly abundant, must now be called rare in Wisconsin.--(Prof. George E. Wagner, Madison.) Common tern, knot, American white pelican, Hudsonian godwit, trumpeter swan, long-billed curlew, snowy heron, Hudsonian curlew, American avocet, prairie sharp-tailed grouse, dowitcher, passenger pigeon. Long-billed dowitcher and northern hairy woodpecker.--(Henry L. Ward, Milwaukee Public Museum.) Wood-duck, ruddy duck, black mallard, grebe or hell-diver, tern and woodcock.--(Fred. Gerhardt, Madison.) WYOMING: Sage grouse and sharp-tailed grouse are becoming extinct, both in Wyoming and North Dakota. Sheridan and Johnson Counties (Wyoming) have sage grouse protected until 1915. The miners (mostly foreigners) are out after rabbits at all seasons. To them everything that flies, walks or swims, large enough to be seen, is a "rabbit." They are even worse than |
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