Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
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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. MICHIGAN: Passenger pigeon, wild turkey, sandhill crane, whooping crane, bison, elk, wolverine. MINNESOTA: Whooping crane, white pelican, trumpeter swan, passenger pigeon, bison, elk, mule deer, antelope. A strange condition exists in Minnesota, as will be seen by reference to the next list of states. A great many species are on the road to speedy extermination; but as yet the number of those that have become totally extinct up to date is small. MISSISSIPPI: Parrakeet, passenger pigeon; bison. (Data incomplete.) MISSOURI: Parrakeet, ivory-billed woodpecker, passenger pigeon, whooping crane, pinnated grouse; bison, elk, beaver. MONTANA: |
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