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They all escaped and a whole day was spent trying to loeate the 

 females but none was seen. A week later we reached the valley 

 of the White Mud or Frenchman river, a tributary of the Missouri, 

 and before an hour had seen a number of old birds with young, 

 and located a nest under sage brush where the chicks were just 

 emerging from the shell. From this nest I obtained two nearly 

 perfect eggs. Specimens were procured and later we traced the 

 birds up the valley of the White Mud to its source in the Cypress 

 hills. In no case was any bird found away from Artemisia cana. 

 At Osoyoos lake where the species has been taken, the true sage 

 brush {Artemisia tridentata) occurs in some quantity. We saw no 

 signs of this species in the upper Milk river valley although we 

 travelled along it for more than loo miles. 



The only sage grouse we recorded was seen by Mr. C. S. Day, 

 one of our party near Skull creek, Sask., June 9th, 1905. {A. C. 

 Bent.) Three specimens were taken by Mr. G. B. Martin, M.P.P., 

 at Osoyoos lake, B.C., in October, 1864. Mr. Charles de B. Green, 

 writing from Osoyoos, March 21st, 1896, said he had two most 

 reliable reports of the occurrence of sage hens in this locaUty, 

 {Fannin.) 



Family XXVI. PHASIANID^ Pheasants, Turkeys, &c. 

 CXXXV. MELEAGRIS. Linn^us. 1758. 

 310a. Wild Turkey. 



Meleagris gallopavo silvestris (Vieill.) Allen. 1902, 



Wild turkeys were formerly quite common in southwestern 

 Ontario, but are now getting rare. In 1880 Dr. Gamier, of Luck- 

 now, killed two males "at Leguis farm near Mitchell bay," and in 

 1884 saw a dead female at Chatham station which had just been 

 killed. {Mcllwraith.) Last specimen seen alive at Plover Mills, 

 Ont., was in 1870. {R. Elliott.) Dr. Brodie says that many years 

 ago (between 1840 and 1850), a well known and reliable hunter 

 saw a flock on the west side of Yonge St. in the township of White- 

 church, near Toronto, Ont. ; wild turkeys certainly came as far 

 east as Hamilton and Mr. C. W. Nash was informed by an old resident 

 of Dundas that they were found at one time on a farm, now just 

 outside of the city limits. (/. H. Fleming.) 



