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O'Neill (D. H. Talbot); "not seen in the vicinity of Omaha, but a fine male 

 taken in Cherry county June 25, 1895, where it is a common resident" (I. S. 

 Trostler). 



Fig. 10. — Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



309. Centrocercus urophasianus (Bonap.) — Sage Grouse; 



Sage Cock. 



Hat creek basin, Sioux county (L. Bruner); western Nebraska (Aughey); 

 "An occasional resident in western Nebraska" (Taylor); "through western 

 Nebraska" (Bendire); Indian creek, in Sioux county, Feb., 1896 — not rare (El- 

 liott W. Brown). 



Family PHASIANIDiE. — Pheasants, etc. 



310. Meleagris gallopavo Linn. — Wild Turkey. 



Kockport and Ft. Calhoun (L. Bruner); "Formerly very abundant in Ne- 

 braska" (Aughey); "Formerly an abundant resident, but now rapidly disap- 

 pearing" (Taylor); "It was not uncommon in southern South Dakota and 

 Nebraska within the last ten years" (Bendire); west along the timbered 

 streams to the edge of the Great Plains (Goss); Bellevue (L. Skow); "formerly 

 found in southern part of Lincoln county, in canyons and along Medicine creek, 

 but none left" (M. K. Barnumj. 



Order COLUMB^E.— Pigeons. 



Family COLUMBID.^.— Pigeons. 



The various species of doves or pigeous are not, as a rule, thought 

 of as being especially harmful, yet repeated examinations of their 

 stomach contents would indicate that their food seldom, if ever, con- 

 sists of anything but grains and various kinds of seeds along with 

 other particles of vegetation. The good done by these birds as de- 

 stroyers of weed seeds more than balances for the harm done by them 

 as grain eaters. 



